Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Neil Bothwick<n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 08:59:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >>> Not meaning to cause too much of a hubbub but I was surprised at >>> how much email traffic has fallen off for the Gentoo lists over the >>> last couple of years. I suspect that some of this is folks moving to >>> less technical environments - maybe Ubuntu or Arch - but still I was >>> surprised that it was something like a 60% drop since the high in >>> 2006. >>> >> It could be a sign of the maturity of Gentoo. If there are less problems >> there will be less posts, since there are very few threads starting with >> "I did a world update today and everything worked perfectly". >> > > Well, mostly I'd say that's true, certainly at the app level it's my > experience, but it seems to me that upgrades like Xorg haven't gone so > well this year. Maybe that's mostly an aberration driven by upstream > quality problems, but if my recollections are correct it wasn't only a > problem for me. > > > <SNIP> > > Thanks for the responses! > > Cheers, > Mark > > >
Yea, there are quite a few that disabled hal, myself included. I disabled mine with the USE flag but some put the line in xorg.conf to disable it. Either way, I still can't get hal to work with the new xorg-server. I think that has been my only really sore spot. I did have a issue with a gcc update. Couldn't compile a kernel, Seamonkey crashes like bumper cars and a few other weird things. I just backed up to the previous version and all is well again. I do think Gentoo is a lot better tho. The way it handles most blocks is really really cool. Dale :-) :-)
