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Jose Luis Rivero <yoswink@g.o> posted 49195BFA.7060404@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:18:34 +0100: |
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> Mixing software branches is very easy in the Gentoo world but it has |
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> some problems. Are you going to install in your stable (production, |
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> critial, important,...) system a combination of packages not tested |
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> before? |
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Your general post I agree with, but this part... |
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If it's a "production, critical, important" system, then what is one |
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doing installing updates on it directly without verifying them on a |
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generally identical test system first? Either it's not actually so |
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important in the grand scheme of things after all, or one will certainly |
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find out eventually just how critical said machine is when it goes down |
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due to "live" testing on a production critical machine. |
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Of course, that doesn't excuse a distribution doing its best to ensure |
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that doesn't happen, but no distribution is perfect. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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