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On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 06:40, Paul de Vrieze wrote:> |
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> > > There are also many people and organizations that want gentoo to run on |
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> > > their servers. Those people have one thing they REALLY REALLY hate, and |
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> > > that is comming to office in the morning and finding out that the nightly |
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> > > world update fucked up their setup, and it will take at least until the |
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> > > end of the |
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> > Then those people shouldn't be idiots. Seriously, who in their right mind |
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> > runs automated nightly updates on production systems? Run them on a test |
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> > machine, then if things look okay afterward, push it out to the production |
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> > boxes. That's common sense. |
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> Of course they don't do that, but there are contacts with corporations that do |
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> want to use gentoo because they like its structure, but don't like the moving |
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> target nature of the tree. The idea is to create releases to suit those |
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> users. Those releases then only receive security fixes and major bug fixes. |
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I believe that the "moving target" tree is the most innovative feature |
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in Gentoo. I also think that it is the main reason that server folks |
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are starting to use it. But those same people want to have their cake |
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and eat it too. |
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The server distro war is always between Flexibility and Stability and |
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the twain will never meet. All Gentoo can do is provide some way |
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(possibility another ~arch style flag) to allow the admin to track a |
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different package set. |
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Don't try to "overcome the moving target. It is the soul of Gentoo |
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IMHO. |
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