On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 13:43, Loic Domaigne wrote: > > How do you expect to recover from a glibc failure? > > Well, in the worse case you have to re-install everything from > scratch. But that's something I'm familiar with. I worked formerly > in a company where the hardware we were getting was still at > 'development stage' (IOW totally buggy). You know, this makes a nice point about gentoo. Since the install process is sooo open and obvious about what is going on at any given step, one does learn a lot just by installing. This prepares you for the eventual system failure caused by PEBCAC related mishap.
> Did you ever try to get a stable system running on a buggy > Hardware? That's a really funny... So funny I split some knuckle skin on the stupid machine! > In one of my system, I have two set of glibcs: the official, and > my "customized version". I use a symlink to switch between both. > But I'm not sure that this solution is feasible with the current glibc... > I'll look at the source, and check the dependencies against NPTL. > (As of LinuxThreads, there is a relatively clean seperation between > glibc and llibpthread. I don't know if it's still hold). Even if it's OK, > I'm not sure this fit with the Gentoo ebuild process... Be aware that things like nvidia-glx need re-emerging to select the right thread model. > Alternatively, I could probably set-up several partitions, so that > I'm sure to boot at least a stable version, even if things got > definitively broken for the experimental one. I have to investigate > this more closely. This should be your goal IMHO. > > I once knew German. The difference is I didn't kill myself when I > > used broken grammar. > > Oh... Killing software is not really a problem. That's sometimes > means spending hours in re-installing all the things, but not more. > Killing Hardware, that's more problematic ;-) Did you ever kill > Hardware?. Nope. glibc changes are unlikely to cause that. XFree was written for this purpose. > I'm really getting a positive feeling about the Gentoo's > community! I'm glad to see someone who takes the "tough love" (I'm not talking about forced anal penetration ;) ) in a positive way. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
