It's a very tedious work to ensure Gentoo Linux to be up-to-date with the latest distribution. The module/packages sometime will collide with each other, causing the update process take a much longer time to finish. But I can't deny that fact that in comparison with Fedora, Gentoo Linux does not give me problem like software compatibility issue.
When I'm doing the update for Gentoo, I found out that there are 2 importants commands that need to be executed before running the updated software. These commands are as follow.
1. env-update
2. source /etc/profile
I was wondering the other day over the reason of not able to emerge the necessary driver when I'm updating Xorg-X11 even though I've specified the necessary information inside /etc/make.conf and doing a deep update. After I performed the above commands, it seems to be able to install the necessary drivers into the system.
The other note on the latest Gentoo Linux, is that once the portage tree has been sync with the latest version, there will be possibility that updating certain software such as the Xorg X11 will be blocked by previous old version, which will display a wrong version number (Like mine, I have 6.8.2 installed, but it shows that version 6.9 is blocking). Probably the reason is because I've not been updating the system frequently to the latest portage, thus such problem will happened?
