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On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 09:32 +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> Gentoo, OTOH, is a /rolling/ /update/ distribution. They actually find it |
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> necessary to warn people not to (routinely) sync more than once a day, and |
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> updating daily to perhaps at the outside monthly, really is how it works |
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> best. I believe you've seen this "sermon" before so I'll keep it short, |
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> but honestly, I'm not just saying this, if you're not going to go rolling |
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> update with it, and rolling update is NOT for everybody, you really |
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> /should/ reevaluate whether Gentoo is the really the best matching choice |
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> for your needs. An "impedance mismatch" of that magnitude may be possible |
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> to work around, but just because it's possible doesn't mean it's the most |
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> efficient choice available, for sure. |
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Duncan, thank you. I'm well aware of the advantages and disadvantages |
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of Gentoo's "rolling update" distribution design, and really appreciate |
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the advantages. My problem isn't knowledge, of which I have enough, but |
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time. Maintaining a Gentoo system is a relatively time consuming |
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activity, and I'm spread extremely thin these days. This problem box |
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has been running Gentoo since 2004, but my work and priorities on my |
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time have changed over the years and it's probably time to move on. |
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Gentoo has gotten a lot more complex since then - arguably better, but |
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certainly more time-consuming to maintain. |
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In the meantime, I need to address the kernel | fstab | udev issue here. |
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Insights and suggestions to address _this_ problem would be most |
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helpful. Lectures on the age of my system, my qualifications as an |
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admin for my own desktop, or my continued us of Gentoo as a desktop |
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distribution are not helpful. |
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