On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 03:16:15PM -0800, Mike Marion wrote:
Interesting.. obviously YMHV ("H"as varied... :P) but my experience has been that gentoo is usually pretty bleeding edge. Yes, you tend to have to add the ~amd64 keyword (I haven't bought a 32bit chip in years.. last was my macbook pro, only because the C2D based ones weren't out yet) but again, my experience has been that I rarely run into compile/build/dependency issues. In fact, about the only ones I ever run into are due to going several months without doing any updates, then trying to do an update that wants to do a huge list of sw.. and something was dropped. Usually I just have to unmerge 1 or 2 packages and then the update cruises along.
Picking a handfull of ~amd64 packages while the rest is stable works a whole lot better than other distributions, just because things are built from source. I have a few hundred ~amd64 lines in my nice working system. Gentoo does tend to be a bit slower about stabilzing packages. This is probably because it is so easy to add keywords for specific packages. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
