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I have been using different Linux and BSD distros without settling |
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for any in particular. As it always happens with any other thing |
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anyway in life you find things you like in one that you don't have in |
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the other |
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I like the gentoo way, except for their BSD-like portage system's |
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attempt to keep everything on the bleeding edge, which seems to me to |
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be quite a bit stupidly risky. I am thinking here mostly about running |
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servers |
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Almost everything else about the portage system I like (even though |
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reverse dependency checks and all this good stuff would be great to |
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have) |
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I have been fancying about a portage-system-like package management |
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utility that would let me: |
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1) choose the most Linux stable kernel |
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2) choose the most stable applications' versions that would dance |
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well after 1)'s music |
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3) check all "most stable" dependencies |
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4) let me compile "a-la portage" my custom system (verifying and |
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keeping the sources ...) |
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I think this is doable. To me it is just a case of bridging cultures. |
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You could for example cheat/use the list of packages and dependencies |
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of the most stable debian release |
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I love gentoo (specially the hardened gentoo project) and I |
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understand gentoo does things this way by its very design. Nonetheless |
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I have also heard endless complaints from gentoo users about portage |
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I think most probably there exists something like what I have in mind |
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and/or there are other people that have been thinking about the same |
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thing |
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Any clarifications, leads, ideas or comments on it? |
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In which other way do you think can portage be improved? Especially |
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for server, HA setups |
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Thanks |
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lbrtchx |
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