Michael Ulm wrote:
2) Go totally ~amd64. I am slightly worried about system
stability in this scenario. Every time the system hiccups
my wife tells me that this never happened in Windows...
I've been running ~amd64 for a year or more now, and I've had no problems
with upgrades breaking
2) Go totally ~amd64. I am slightly worried about system
stability in this scenario. Every time the system hiccups
my wife tells me that this never happened in Windows...
Well, I don't know what's the stability of stable, but my ~amd64 is
working pretty fine!
I never had big problems
Michael Ulm [EMAIL PROTECTED] skribis:
So, I am asking for advice from the more experienced Gentooers
here. How do you deal with the ~amd64 packages?
I have it as my default. The system does hiccup sometimes, and if you
want something that doesn't hiccup then maybe Gentoo isn't the best
choice.
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:40, Michael Ulm wrote:
1) spending several hours checking out the ~amd64 packages I
emerged, to see if they are available in stable, and which
dependencies can then be brought back to amd64. As spare
time is a rather scarce resource for me, I don't
Michael Ulm wrote:
[...] How do you deal with the ~amd64 packages?
You could add version specific atoms for the packages you need to
/etc/portage/package.keywords:
=games-puzzle/gnudoku-0.92 ~x86
instead of
games-puzzle/gnudoku
The effect should be (AFAIK), that the
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 12:51 +0100, Michael Ulm wrote:
This seems like a good idea. If take the do-nothing approach,
I can invest the time saved in this. What's the formal procedure
to follow? Is there a HOWTO or some other documentation (some
quick googling produced nothing)?
See our arch
