> I am however documenting my experiences for others than come after me > to this question of "to ~amd64 or not ~amd64". Nothing more. It worked > for Alan who is a __very__ experienced and capable person. It didn't > work for Mark (at this point) who is a 10 year Gentoo user but > __nothing__ more than a user type Those people can decide who they are > closer to in capabilities and make their choice a bit more informed. > > I didn't wake up this morning thinking I could do what you and Neil > and others on this list can with this distro. I'm not that silly! I > just wanted to try ~amd64 to see what happened. It will take me less > than 90 minutes to get to a new clean install if I blow everything > away and start over. It's not a big deal. > > - Mark >
Is there a reason why you want to run all @system as ~amd64, and the rest stable. To me it makes more sense (especially for production systems) to run @system as stable and only ~amd64 those apps and dependencies you want/need to be bleeding edge. Anyhow, what I really wanted to say is for more sensible unmasking, check out autounmask: moriah home # esearch autounmask [ Results for search key : autounmask ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * app-portage/autounmask Latest version available: 0.27 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 3 kB Homepage: http://download.mpsna.de/opensource/autounmask/ Description: autounmask - Unmasking packages the easy way License: GPL-2 moriah home #