Francesco Riosa posted on Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:32:56 +0200 as excerpted: > Actually an `emerge -uDN @world` fail constantly, because of broken deps > and other stuff (given a desktop profile with a good number of packages) > this fact render gentoo very unpleasant to keep up to date, it has never > been a breeze but it was better.
As a gentoo user for over a decade that takes his job as an admin (if you are responsible for a machine including updates and decisions what it will run, you're an admin, for better or worse) seriously... I don't see emerges being much more difficult now that before. Rather the reverse, as they offer more information about what's going wrong, now, and for someone serious about admining gentoo boxen, about how to fix the problems, since they stay informed on how their tools work, just as a skilled carpenter knows well how /his/ tools work. Of course, that's why I subscribe here, too, because as an admin serious about the job, I appreciate the value of the heads-up I get from this list on most big changes. OTOH, I run ~arch and always have, so what deps look like on sta(b)le I couldn't say. To a large extent, gentoo depends on the people running stable to care about it and report problems (with the same applying to ~arch, of course). Tools only go so far... it still takes someone skilled in using them to produce anything of value. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
