Finally a worthwhile system update! :D

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DrWoland · Post by **DrWoland** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 9:25 pm

Lately, I've grown nostalgic for updates that involved actual work. emerge -uD world would give me a list of 10-12 minor packages that installed themselves fairly quickly and required almost not intervention from me in dispatch-conf.

Today must be my lucky day! glibc, AND a new kernel?!! Oh my!

Let's hope this one goes smoothly too! (knock on wood) gentoo has been very stable/easy to maintain as of late, as compared to 03-04 times. Praised be the gentoo devs!

richard_ablitt · Post by **richard_ablitt** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:10 pm

You could always unmask a few packages, or go for some cvs stuff like xgl or enlightenment. (:

DrWoland · Post by **DrWoland** » Sun Apr 30, 2006 10:35 pm

richard_ablitt wrote:You could always unmask a few packages, or go for some cvs stuff like xgl or enlightenment. (:

I'm cool with fluxbox

Thanks though. What I'm pointing to more is the increased overal stability of the non ~ trees. Before, even if all you used were straight up x86 packages, something somewhere would always freak out. It wasn't necessarily a big deal, but you'd have to remerge something or fix a config or patch something... you get the idea. I'm seeing less and less of this as time goes on. I'm also using Gentoo on a laptop, which you would think would cause additional problems, but no - nothing. Granted, I have frequency scaling and such disabled and am ideologically opposed to hybernation, so I guess I do follow a ppretty safe course, but still, I've noticed a significant improvement.