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José, |
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My compliments on your analysis. Based on my experience with various |
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clients and also having spoken at various Gentoo events worldwide you |
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have certainly summarized the essence of best-practice Gentoo systems |
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administration. |
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On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 10:21 +0200, José González Gómez wrote: |
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> some people perceive the addition per se as a source of instability, |
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> but I think this comes from the "emerge -uDN world" kind of sys |
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> admining. As long as you stick with a stable set of versions for your |
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> packages ... you would have a slowly changing system you can have |
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> under control. ... Or even better, you may gradually update your |
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> applications to control the upgrade pace. In addition, what's stable |
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> for a given admin or installation may be completely broken for some |
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> other admin or installation |
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Yes, exactly. |
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> Then you could take your own informed decission before ever trying to |
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> upgrade to a new version in your test environment (you have one, don't |
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> you?) |
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This makes perfect sense when you consider than anyone who acts to roll |
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out systems configured to their own local specification is adopting the |
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responsibility of being a distribution vendor themselves. |
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In that light, the only question that matters in the context of large |
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installation systems administration is "how well does a given vendor |
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{distro} support me in my task of rolling out what I choose to roll |
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out?" |
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> I would like to make a proposal here. What if no longer mantained |
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> ebuilds were marked but not deleted? Let's say you have _x86 in |
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> KEYWORDS for ebuilds/packages no longer maintained |
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In our view that would be an excellent approach - it would leverage the |
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power of the existing centralized mainline portage tree (without needing |
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separate overlays, etc etc) while removing the bulk of the bugs |
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associated with disappearing ebuilds. |
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Again, my compliments. |
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