Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote:

> OK, I will try making all the gst-plugins unstable and see if that
> fixes things -- I have been warned not to convert the whole box to
> unstable -- is this a correct warning?

Depends how much you adore gentoo and how much time you are willing to devote to b.g.o....

I have no trouble with this ~x86 notebook running cvs-e17/kde-3.5.9/kde-4 beyond the occasional blockers. I equate ~arch to similar to an Ubuntu release, and plain old arch to similar to a Debian release. Users don't seem to suffer their machines self-destructing when they install the latest Ubuntu.... so to my mind the warning about ~arch are over-rated for desktop users.

Others might disagree <shrug>

> I have been just putting the
> packages in the package.keywords when portage tells me to -- which is
> usually quite a few for every update.

I tried that once. Turns out that (for me) fiddling with package.keywords to get the right combination like you are having to do now was infinitely more trouble than just going ~arch

Which way to go is a decision you must make for yourself. I can tell you what I think but it really is up to you in the end. Just be warned that there is no easy way to revert back to arch from ~arch if you do switch ;-)

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Alan McKinnon
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