Neil Walker wrote:
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
Sabayon is just gentoo with a different installer, correct?
No, it's a binary distribution and a horrible mess.
So as long as you do your emerge sync && emerge -u world. you never
need to install a new version, right?
That is about the most dangerous thing you can do on Sabayon -
virtually guaranteed to break the system. It uses a mix of stable and
testing with a huge list of packages in /etc/portage/package.keywords
with ~arch. :( Any attempt to update the system the Gentoo way will
lead to a tangle of blocks, upgrades, downgrades, package masks, etc.
that can take a long time to sort out. At least that was how it was
when I tried it. :(
Obviously my view wasn't as sophisticated or detailed, but in essence,
being a newbie, I felt the risk of that was too great. Hence wanting to
use the newer version to upgrade some key packages.
I'm going to play with gentoo some in a vmware instance so I can get
some idea of this emerge/compiling thingy :-)
Russ
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