Re: [gentoo-desktop] Desktop nearly unbootable!! Need HELP!!

[Lindsay Haisley]

Thus spake Donnie Berkholz on Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:36:19AM CDT
> > Here are a couple of thoughts.  There's a single ldap USE flag spec'd for
> > Gentoo.  There are, however, several widely different ways in which ldap can be
> > used.  For instance, although I have ldap in my USE flags for my desktop
> > system, I don't want to use ldap authentication, nor do I want the system to
> > even try to use it.  I do want ldap capabilities in applications such as
> > evolution, and ldap clients, and proper schemas installed by various such
> > applilcations which can take advantage of them.  Perhaps rather than a single
> > "ldap" USE flag, there need to be at least a couple - "ldap-auth",
> > "ldap-client", etc.
>
> Propose this to the LDAP maintainers or gentoo-dev. It probably won't be
> heard and heeded in this forum.

You're probably right about that.
 
> > One of the disadvantages of Gentoo is that it follows the open source maxim
> > "release early, release often" pretty literally.  The choices are either to
> > keep an identical non-production server around as a test bed or to not try to
> > keep up2date on stuff once the system is stable.  I do live dangerously, and
> > reserve the right to whine about it when I get my butt bitten ;-)  One of the
> > advantages of Gentoo is that the dev community and forums are generally very
> > helpful in solving stuff when things break.  bugs.gentoo.org is a great
> > resource to which I successfully turn more often than I would wish.
>
> You should always have a test-bed for production servers, regardless of
> which distro you're using.

Yes, Donnie, there are things that I _should_ do and then there's a subset
of these that I _can_ do.  I've been hosting Internet services for 12 years. 
I run a very small one-man operation w. two servers.  Currently I do have a
2nd box identical to one of my 2 production servers, but it's slated to
replace the older of the two production servers.  I rely on my own skill and
the care and skill of the devs of the Linux distros that I use to avoid
problems.  One of my servers uses Debian, which has proved _very_ reliable
across substantial distro version upgrades.  I've had pretty good luck with
Gentoo, too.

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