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--On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 04:22:45 -0700 Matt Thrailkill |
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<xwred1@×××××××××.net> wrote: |
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Firstly, this is not a flame. Please give me the benefit of the doubt in |
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that respect :) |
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> Just a meager user comment. I run Gentoo "stable" on my desktop and |
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> laptop, but it seems like things still change a bit too much and too |
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> largely to where I'd feel comfortable deploying it on a server. |
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There is no gentoo stable in the same way that Obsd has stable. Obsd stable |
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can pretty much be guaranteed to work and play happily. Ebuilds are marked |
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stable or unstable based on whether the _ebuild_ is known to be reliable, |
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not the package which the ebuild installs. |
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There is no indication inside of portage as to whether a program is stable |
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or not, other than extreme cases where ebuilds are masked because the app |
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is very broken. Its not possible for us to say "this is a stable platform" |
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for a gentoo "system" can include any number of programs that we may or may |
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not have written ebuilds for which can affect the system. |
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Obsd peeps know exactly what apps are installed in their base system, so |
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they can mark the stuff stable when they're fairly sure the base system |
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doesn't blow up. |
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Also, I think you misunderstand "releases". 1.4 is a release of an install |
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CD and maybe GRP. Thats it. It makes no difference to the actual system |
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once you start running emerge sync you'll be back in the same place as |
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someone who installed with a 1.3 install CD and has been running emerge |
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sync. |
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Rob |
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robh@g.o / robh:irc.freenode.net |
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http://cvs.gentoo.org/~robh/robh@××××××××××.asc |
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