Top posting since John started it. lol Can you two explain this to Alan Grimes? He seems to think emerge has some very serious problems. ;-)
I might add, I recently went through the KDE plasma update which involved a ton of rebuilds/upgrades. Since I run a mix of stable and unstable, it took some effort to get it all sorted BUT emerge did a pretty good job of telling me what was needed. Once I got the proper things in the keyword and USE file, it was off to compile land for several hours. I might add, I had to use some of Alan McKinnion's logic to understand emerge's output. I might add, I also recently did a emerge -e world. Out of all the over 1,400 packages installed on this machine, only one failed. I can't recall the package name but I seem to recall keywording to a newer version and that worked. Still, 1 out of over 1400 packages. That's pretty dang good. About 99.9% success. Almost like 24 caret gold. It seems you two are not alone on being some happy Gentooers. :-D Dale :-) :-) John Blinka wrote: > I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for > prompting me to add my 2 cents. > > I've been using Gentoo for perhaps 15 years. There have been a few > rough patches along the way resolved by new reinstalls, but overall > this has been by far the best computing environment I've ever used. > (And one of the best online communities I've ever lurked in.) I > remember feeling quite apprehensive at my first install after giving > the Handbook my first look, but that install went well, and I've never > looked back. I've been able to transition from using Gentoo as a > professional development system for large scale parallel numerical > stuff, to using it for some personal work in medical informatics, and > lately digital photography. In general, I've found that Gentoo just > works, given a little effort to understand how to make it work via its > truly wonderful array of well written documentation. I really like > the ease with which I've been able to venture into new categories of > software and computing. Every time I've needed something new, it's > been in portage and has been fairly easy to install, configure, and use. > > I recently had to do reinstalls on all my systems due to disk > failures. Took a few days, but I've been living in a sweet spot ever > since, with everything working perfectly on all systems. > > Thanks to all who've made this possible! > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de > <mailto:a...@muc.de>> wrote: > > Hello, Gentoo. > > I'm just saying hello to confirm I'm still here. > > For many months now, Gentoo has simply worked for me, without > problems. > I sync my system several times a week, and emerge just works. > > The last bit of excitement I had was in early 2015 when I was > trying to > sort out the mess in my xfce4 system after gnome-3 had been made > stable. > In the end, I gave up and reinstalled Gentoo, which this time took me > only a week. > > Admittedly, there's very little which is cutting edge on my system > - the > box is 6½ years old, it boots with lilo on an old fashioned BIOS, my > filesystems are ext3 (or in one case, ext2) on spinning rust. The > only > remotely adventurous things I've got are RAID-1 (via the kernel) and > lvm2. > > So a big thanks to all the developers who've brought about this happy > state of affairs! > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). > >
