Martin S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...]
I recently did something similar only never got past thining I might do it.... I too had gotten my OS pretty unstable by not really understanding how keywording etc worked. I still don't really fully get it but I came back thinking I'd stay with stable. > Back to Gentoo. And battling my own errors... > I think I'll run the stable branch this time though. What had happened to cause you to need to reinstall? For me it was running: ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -vuD world Not realizing the repercussions, like that all dependancies would be unmasked too. That eventuall got me into a pretty big mess. When I reinstalled gentoo my plan was to stay with stable like you. However I soon scrapped that too. Kde is about to jump to kde-3.5 being stable I think and when I went to install kde it wanted to install kde-3.4.3 meaning I'd soon be grinding through all of kde again. Posters have argued that compiling kde is really so bad but I still think its really a time waster. Trying to unmask stuff soon turned into a pita although it can be done. I just started running with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in /etc/make.conf and decided to let the chips fall where they may. At least I don't have to fiddle around with a mixture of stable and masked. I doubt that above would be seen as very good plan by many though. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list