On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 18:19 -0700, walt wrote:
> I run gnome on my ~amd64 machine and have had no problems at all (so far).
> IMHO it's safe to run gnome on an ~amd64 machine, but I've not used the
> unstable gnome desktop on a stable amd64 machine. Just from past experience
> I might expect problems from mixing stable/unstable in that manner. But
> I can offer no evidence either way.
I'm running testing GNOME on a "stable" system, with tesing
audio/video/gfx/xorg stuff.
Everything I consider "moving fast" is testing, the rest of the system
is stable. Works good for me. Just that I have to unmask more and more
base packages too, because they are a dependency of other unmasked
packages...
$ wc -l /etc/portage/package.*
593 /etc/portage/package.keywords
2 /etc/portage/package.mask
32 /etc/portage/package.unmask
23 /etc/portage/package.use
650 total
(cleaned number after checking for comments with
$ egrep '^#' /etc/portage/package.*
)
$ eix -I --only-names | wc -l
1194
Well... I wouldn't call a system with 50% testing packages officially
"stable" - though it is. :D
Bye,
Daniel
