Re: [gentoo-server] requirements for a more stable portage tree

[Kurt Lieber]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:30:39PM +1030 or thereabouts, stephen white wrote:
> There should be multiple baselines, so I can rebuild servers to what
> Gentoo was a year ago, two years ago, or 6 months ago. If I have a 2
> year old server, I shouldn't be forced to update packages because I
> want to rebuild the system to clean it up.

One thing that I personally will lobby against is the idea of backporting
security fixes to any significant degree.  I don't think that's a core
comptetency of ours now and I don't think the time and effort required to
start this practice is worth it.

So, I don't object to the idea of multiple baselines, but if your
expectation is that security fixes will be backported to them, then I'd
object to that.

I realize lots of folks will disagree with me here.  That's fine -- that's
why we're having this discussion.

--kurt