On Tuesday 02 May 2006 09:34 am, Richard Fish wrote: > On 5/1/06, Farhan Ahmed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you wish to have latest packages, change ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86", it > > might make your system a bit unstable but going through my experience it > > has not broken a thing in my system. > > And I recommend that you do *not* set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 unless you > are prepared for the consequences.
WHAT CONSEQUENCES!? I've asked on multiple occassions for a comparison to a Debian paradigm. My first distro was Debian. So a comparison to Debian would do me a world of good. > It is very much a testing environment, where either the ebuild or the > package itself might not be completely stable, or worse, incompatible > with previous configuration files or other packages on your system. > Baselayout and udev have been particularly 'dangerous' on ~x86 > recently. > > Additionally, ~x86 updates more frequently than x86, so you will have > much more downloading and compiling to do at each update. Yeah, I think I'll avoid that until I have a distcc network running! Compiling on my poor laptop takes *forever!* > Yes ~x86 does work most of the time, and the Gentoo devs are extremely > good at fixing problems quickly. But it can be expected to break > occasionally, and you need to know what do when it does. Mean time to failure? > If you want ~x86 for specific packages, use /etc/portage/package.keywords. Okay.
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