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On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Calum wrote: |
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> On Monday 15 November 2004 12:50, Christophe Garault wrote: |
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>> This is one of my main question before having Gentoo on my servers. |
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>> What is the lifetime of ebuilds? Will I still be able to maintain |
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>> PHP4 in two years, or will I have to upgrade to PHP5 even if I don't |
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>> want new features? |
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> I wonder the same thing. I am building a server that will be very hard |
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> and expensive for me to access if anything goes wrong with the |
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> networking. |
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> I have the same questions - devfs and udev is the one I am asking |
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> myself currently. If I need to upgrade the kernel at some stage due to |
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> some exploit, or whatever, and devfs is dropped, do I trust myself to |
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> swap over to udev remotely, and get the device name changes perfect |
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> remotely? |
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> Or do I go for a slightly less mature udev now? |
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Most of the systems that I have encountered in a role where physical |
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access is limited do not need either devfs or udev - if nobody can get |
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to it, hotswapping USB/Firewire devices is not going to be a priority, |
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and devfs/udev isn't actually required even for hotswap (it just makes |
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it a whole lot easier). Personally, one of my annoyances with Gentoo is |
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that it complains if you don't have either (but it doesn't require udev |
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be executed, so I've installed it simply to have less panicy boots.) |
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On the other hand, my answer on the main question - nowhere near long |
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enough for any serious use, at the moment. Personally, I think there's |
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a need for a new set of keywords, for 'enterprise stable'. I don't see |
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this happening until many of the devs are full-time paid staff, however. |
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After all, supporting old versions is extra work, and it's not something |
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the devs are personally interested in doing. |
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Ed |
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