Upgrading gcc and glibc (agian) <OT>

[Collins Richey]

On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 16:21:22 +0100
Geoff <capsthorne at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> I decided it was Gentoo or LFS and I actually
> installed Gentoo first.  I could see all the advantages, yet the very
> convenience of e-builds again left me feeling that I was not fully in
> control and would not learn as much as I wanted. Also, at that time,
> there seemed to a couple of issues with Gentoo - the one that springs
> to mind was CUPS, which I could not get going and one of the CUPS
> gurus was saying loud and long that the e-build was defective.  

There was a time about 6-8 months ago when CUPS first began screwing
around with Ghostscript (providing their own modifications) that I could
not get CUPS to work at all even on my plain-vanilla Laserjet.  This is
not a gentoo problem.  I reverted to the older LPR mechanisms for a
couple of months, then emerged CUPS and friends again, and now it works.

There are currently new versions of CUPS et al ebuilds, but I wouldn't
touch these with a fork until they've aged somewhat.  Once burned; twice
shy.  Sometimes even the competent folks at gentoo can't cope with
whatever the CUPS folks have screwed up.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the 
worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.