Martin S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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I recently did something similar only never got past thining I might
do it.... I too had gotten my OS pretty unstable by not really
understanding how keywording etc worked. I still don't really fully
get it but I came back thinking I'd stay with stable.
> Back to Gentoo. And battling my own errors...
> I think I'll run the stable branch this time though.
What had happened to cause you to need to reinstall?
For me it was running:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -vuD world
Not realizing the repercussions, like that all dependancies would be
unmasked too.
That eventuall got me into a pretty big mess.
When I reinstalled gentoo my plan was to stay with stable like you.
However I soon scrapped that too. Kde is about to jump to kde-3.5
being stable I think and when I went to install kde it wanted to
install kde-3.4.3 meaning I'd soon be grinding through all of kde
again. Posters have argued that compiling kde is really so bad but I
still think its really a time waster.
Trying to unmask stuff soon turned into a pita although it can be
done.
I just started running with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in /etc/make.conf
and decided to let the chips fall where they may. At least I don't
have to fiddle around with a mixture of stable and masked.
I doubt that above would be seen as very good plan by many though.
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