On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 22:21, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > I can't quite believe that I've lost the entire system to a > routine package update on the stable tree.
Well, in fairness, one should never upgrade a core library, especially glibc, except as part of a major planned system upgrade. We get so used to Gentoo rocking in most situations that unfortunately it's easy to forget that we can't get away from the tribulations the other distros go through to find a stable gcc+glibc+core+bin+file+libs+... combination. Mucking with any of those things invites a full regression system rebuild at best and a disaster at worst. Use space apps, on the other hand (up to and including GNOME!) are awesome to rebuild if as and when you have a reason to. > As soon as I realised I mailed > the list. Which is much appreciated by the rest of us - and the strength of the Gentoo community! I'm very sorry that your machine got hosed. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help on rebuild. AfC Sydney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
