ACCEPT_KEYWORDS

[MOS-FET]

hello,

i have a gentoo box with ck-sources 2.4.22 running for a while now, and everything works just great. i was thinking about of activating ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" in /etc/make.conf to always have the latest packages of everything. i was wondering if this is a good idea, i'm using my PC every day mainly for internet, email, music, office and some coding jobs from time to time. is there anybody who has enalbed ACCEPT_KEYWORDS? how unstable is "unstable" in real life? for now, i have the feeling that every "unstable" linux app is still thousand times more stable than any windows app. may there be some other problems when i enable ACCEPT_KEYWORDS?

thanks
tom

[amne]

take a look at this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=86660

[Sgeorg]

I'm now yousing gentoo since a year (nearly)

and I wouldn't recomend that! "~arch" is usefull for some special packages but not for the whole system! (That's my opinion)

so if you set "~arch" permanently, every time you do a world update you have to fear of an instable or more or the less "dead" system!(possibly)

If you need a new feature of a special package than do this one with "~arch"!

The main question:
Do you need instabillity; every feature every where; risk of system down and (maybe the wrong question for a gentoo user: "the latest optimization")

But you are right: unstable isn't that unstable at all (no in general, but mostly what I found out)


Hope helped a bit,
Georg

[MOS-FET]

ya thanks for your opinion. i'm not sure yet :-) well it's not a very good idea i guess. i've done it with some packages so far, for example grip, quanta, k3b, gimp and i didn't have any problems with those apps (despite lacking i18n sometimes).

tom

[pilla]

Dup of this thread

Thanks to amne
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