thank you all guys !!! I understand now the complex resons to always have backups and test servers ;;;; I am sorry to make such a mess at the list, it wasn´t my intantion, thank one more time for the attention that was spend on my trouble. I promise that in the next time I will make some more relevant posts.
On 10/22/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin schreef: > > direct experience. I have seen xine and mplayer break multiple times > > or KDE loosing its themes, > > Yeah, but mplayer breaks if your breathe on it too hard, and Xine is not > all that much better (though better than gstreamer, and overall the best > in terms of stability). > > New releases of KDE often are so buggy that you 1) *have* to upgrade > whatever is available to get the bugfixes and 2) can't really be certain > that any breakage is related to library updates (or worse yet, only > *partial* library updates, not all relevant libraries, because all > relevant libraries don't necessarily have updates available at the same > time), rather than just one of the bugs. > > 'Loosing its themes' I've never seen (but then again I try to avoid > using KDE as much as possible), but of all the things that KDE might > (and has, in my experience) lose after a full, partial, or deep upgrade, > "themes" are about the last on my "oh, no, I'm now hysterical" list. But > that's just me. > > > because of qt updates or wesnoth. And that are the ones I remember > > without to much brain work. That is why I am healed from --deep > > updates > > OK. It's your box. > > In my opinion, it's impossible to avoid stuff breaking (on a > Gentoo/source-based distro) box; libraries and applications depending on > those libraries are *going* to be mis-matched at some point or another, > sometimes quite often. It's usually temporary, and usually easy to fix: > recompile the app against the updated library, as I did yesterday for > Beagle, or run <name_your_language>.updater-- I just found there's an > ocaml-updater script; who knew? or run the config utility for gcc, or > java or whatever is the problem today. Or switch apps, which is a > little-thought-of but often quite effective solution. Helps to be a bit > flexible, though, of course, which everybody does not have the liberty > to be. But if not, then just stick with stable and don't upgrade at all, > --deep or otherwise. > > Holly > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
