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Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> wrote: |
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> Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote: |
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>> What a great way to kill the distro. |
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>> I can already heat my house with the number of unnecessary rebuilds |
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> Do you upgrade @world every hour and thus have it cause excessive heat? |
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> If I upgrade every X weeks they become much more cool and necessary... |
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One of the main advantages of gentoo is the flowing upgrade, |
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especially since this can only be very poorly emulated by |
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a binary distro. |
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If you really suggest that the user waits one month and |
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then recompiles the whole installation, you give up |
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this advantage of gentoo: The user is not up-to-date |
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for a long time, and moreover, then needs practically |
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a full reinstall; both are things which he wants to avoid |
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and why perhaps he has chosen gentoo in the first place. |
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At least, for me it is the case: if I have to reinstall |
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all packages every months - and even have delay in security |
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updates for a month - I will certainly switch the |
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distribution. I guess many others think similarly. |
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