On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:27 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:02:45PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote > > > > 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. > > Gentoo ~x86 (or ~whatever) is roughly equivalant to a mix of Debian > "Testing" and "Unstable". A package may be ~ simply because it hasn't > been tested enough yet to certify as stable. Or it may be horribly > broken. Or somewhere in between. If you were comfortable running > Debian unstable, you'll be comfortable running Gentoo ~x86.
THANK YOU! That made quite a bit of sense to me. You have no idea how much sense that made to me, actually.
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