On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 13:23 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Personally I think we're in one of those > unfortunate periods of time where there is a relatively high number of > issues. I'm seeing it on all my machines. It's taking far more of my > time to deal with this than I wish it would. > > 1) ntp-update problems at boot time.
Hmm, I'm not having any ntp-update problems on my machines. Have you submitted a bug report or searched the bug database? Obviously this isn't happening for everyone so if the right people don't know about it then you can't expect it to get fixed. > 2) emerge -DuN world building lots of packages that are already on the > system but the LoG has apparently changed flags so emerge wants to > rebuild them. But that's what -N does! That's what it's documented to do. RTFM. If you don't want that behavior then don't use -N. Either use --reinstall changed-use or don't use any USE-specific flags. Personally I just let portage re-install as it doesn't really change anything if you haven't changed your use flags. > 3) New and unclear (to me) messages about portage flag overrides > caused by overlays I've been using for a while. These are probably warnings about overlays overriding settings in the regular portage profile. Some overlays do this. It's just a fact of life. Again, if you don't want to deal with it then don't use overlays or at least choose overlays that don't do potentially bad things. It's not the Gentoo devs responsibility if you bring in 3rd-party overlays that change stuff. So with the possible exception of #1, these appear to be "but it hurts when I do that" problems, not issues with Gentoo stability.
