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On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 05:45, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> In general when you have to maintain such a system you want to keep it as it |
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> is. To avoid it breaking, or users being annoyed with changed interfaces. |
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> This means that you install once, and after that want to change as little as |
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> possible. With the current portage this is not easy because ebuilds disapear |
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> after they have been succeeded by newer ones. |
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Valid enough concern. However if I was building a series of Gentoo |
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servers that were to be as stable as could be I would go through the |
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portage tree and prune non-server stuff (such as x11-*) and then create |
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my own Portage tree to sync against. |
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Regards, |
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-Lisa |
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