Apparently, though unproven, at 14:44 on Sunday 05 June 2011, Indi did opine thusly:
> Yes, probably I'm unlikely to do it... > Never did actually switch from testing to stable, it's always the other > way around. Every now and then I'll delete the "~" and type "emerge > -vauND world", it always looks like a fracking nightmare... > > In fact, testing branch is remarkable good and more stable than most > distro's "stable" branch. The gentoo devs are truly magnificent at their > job. IIRC the approved way to do it is set arch to stable then just leave it alone for 6 months letting packages catch up. Keep an eye out for security bugs but otherwise do nothing. After a while emerge world will show a list that looks like it will complete without too much difficulty. Of course this just glosses over (aka completely ignores) deal-breakers like opecrc not moved to stable yet (no longer the case fortunately) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
