J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, April 16, 2016 11:25:23 AM Dale wrote: >> Top posting since John started it. lol > Refusing to top-post, even when others do... > Makes for even more fun to trace the conversations... > >> Can you two explain this to Alan Grimes? He seems to think emerge has >> some very serious problems. ;-) > Trying to explain it to him will be as useful as discussing science with > members of the Westboro Baptist Church or similar.... >
I was thinking fence post but we have the same idea. ;-) >> 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. > Aside from that, the upgrade guide was a very useful step-by-step guide to > avoid any blockers during the upgrade. > Actually, I think the only info I got from it was that I had to switch to sddm and emerge the plasma package. Since I have a mix of stable and unstable here, it went down a whole new path after that. I had hard blockers, other packages that had to be keyworded and to change some USE flags as well. If I was running stable only, then the guide would likely have worked step by step. It did give the basic info that I needed even tho I was running a install that was different. The big point tho, emerge did a pretty darn good job of dropping bread crumbs on what needed changing. On a couple occasions, it took me a few reads to grasp what it was saying but it was there and I was able to figure it out. So, unlike Alan G and his problems, emerge did a good job. >> 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. > 1 out of 1400 is, in my opinion, 1 too many. > But compared to the likely 400 you'd have had about 5 or 6 years ago, I am > extremely pleased. That is what I was talking about. Many years ago, even thinking you could do a emerge -e world of that many packages without at least a dozen failures of some kind would be nuts. I'm talking rooms with rubber walls nuts too. Actually, if I had not forgot to keyword that new version, it would have worked. That version had already failed and I should have done the keyword change first. So really, it was my fault. >> It seems you two are not alone on being some happy Gentooers. :-D > Count me there as well. > I have long passed the point where I will accept bad and unreliable systems > when I can help it. > > The longest uptime I have ever had was running Gentoo. If it wasn't for power failures, I may not ever reboot this thing. lol Dale :-) :-)
