On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:43:40PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> > >>> Or should I do something radical to get current software, such as > >>> installing gentoo on the former etch partition? > >> ack! bite your tongue! ;-0 > > > > No... that hurts. > > > > The argument for having gentoo is that it really comes close to > > the *latest* software, and is seems to be free of the version skews > > imposed by package construction using different versions of, say, the C > > and C++ run-times. On the other hand, installation and upgrading take > > inordinately long, and I will no longer have the graceful handover from > > testing to stable, after which the partition containing the former > > stable system is upgraded to new testing. > > > > Oh yes, gentoo is reported to have some stability problems, which is > > unlikely to be worse than what's happening to me with etch now. > > fair point. > > > good luck'
Someone here pointed out to me that I won't have enough free temporary space on disk to compile openoffice in gentoo anyway. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
