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On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 11:17 -0500, Dan Meltzer wrote: |
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> One thing I have always noticed about gentoo is that it is lacking in |
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> the server department, for whatever reason. I was wondering if there |
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> are any plans to remedy this, I have thought about a few possible |
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> ideas. |
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> 1) add an emerge server-system class, this class would contain apps |
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> that may not be as new, but they would be known to be stable, and work |
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> well with everything. THe last thing a server admin needs is to be |
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> debugging which package in an emerge -aDuv world is messing up. |
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> 2) make better use of glsa-check, maybe an addon that parses that |
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> output and automatically does upgrades known not to break anything. |
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> 3) I dunno.... what do you think? |
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> Is this a possibilty//has it been talked about at all? |
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I don't think Gentoo is "lacking in the server department" at all. It |
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hasn't been deployed much in the server marketplace because of the |
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overwhelming market share position of Red Hat, and to a lesser extent |
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Suse and Mandrake. In other words, this isn't a technical issue, it's a |
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marketing issue. Maybe when there are Gentoo Certified Engineers, and a |
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corporate-style accountability, Gentoo will at least get some attention. |
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Then again, I'm not sure that a "non-profit" organization like the |
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Gentoo Foundation can "legitimately" compete with Red Hat or Novell. |
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