J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Saturday, April 16, 2016 07:07:16 PM Dale wrote: > >> I was thinking fence post but we have the same idea. ;-) > You're referring to a LART? > http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=LART
That's the one. ROFL > Actually, I think the only info I got from it was that I had to switch > to sddm and emerge the plasma package. Since I have a mix of stable and > unstable here, it went down a whole new path after that. I had hard > blockers, other packages that had to be keyworded and to change some USE > flags as well. If I was running stable only, then the guide would > likely have worked step by step. It did give the basic info that I > needed even tho I was running a install that was different. > It also gave some commands on how to find packages you'd need to temporarily > remove from the world-file. Hmmm, I didn't have to do that. The biggest blocker I had was because of a entry in one of the package.* files. I can't recall what it was now tho. I think I just commented it out completely and then emerge was much happier. As we know, running a mixed system is sometimes harder than running either all stable or all unstable. I'm sure it ticks off emerge too. ;-) >> That is what I was talking about. Many years ago, even thinking you >> could do a emerge -e world of that many packages without at least a >> dozen failures of some kind would be nuts. I'm talking rooms with >> rubber walls nuts too. Actually, if I had not forgot to keyword that >> new version, it would have worked. That version had already failed and >> I should have done the keyword change first. So really, it was my fault. > Not removing failing versions.... Like to life dangerously? Well, I think it wouldn't build because another package was at a version that package didn't like and it tried to build on that. Basically, there was a couple packages in sort of a mismatch. >> The longest uptime I have ever had was running Gentoo. If it wasn't >> for power failures, I may not ever reboot this thing. lol > Same here, but I tend to reboot only for kernel upgrades. Power failures > don't > happen that much here. > > -- > Joost > > We used to have frequent power outages. If it was windy, lights out. If it was raining and windy, certainly lights out then. A few years ago, they replaced a whole section of power lines that went about 10 miles. It went from the substation almost to the road I live on which is where they kept having trouble. I think what it was doing is the wind or rain would weigh the lines down and they were so old and weak, they broke. Oddly tho, winter didn't seem to bother them as much as summer. Since they replaced that large section of lines, they may blink at times but that's about it. Also, they cleared out a LOT of trees that was around the lines too. They do that every few years tho. Yea, I live out in the sticks. We hunt, fish, grow a garden etc out here. If I don't get some sleep, I won't be able to work on that tractor when the sun pops up in a few hours either. It needs a new clutch. Dale :-) :-)
