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On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 01:24:04AM +0800, Michael Kohl wrote: |
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> About how to achieve this I'm not quite sure, although the BSD way of |
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> -stable/-current seems to be a viable solution to some of my issues, it |
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> somehow doesn't feel "gentooish" to me. |
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I think this is really a great idea and a step in right direction. I have |
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migrated my personal work boxes not so long ago from Debian to Gentoo, |
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because of the bleeding edge stuff which resides in portage an which is |
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really fast in it after a new release of a software is done (Really nice |
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to see, especially if you had to stay on XFree 4.0.x so long on Debian ;)) ) |
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But I'm quite reluctant to put Gentoo anywhere on my servers, because |
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of the moving target Gentoo is, and after having my first 'bad' experience |
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with Gentoo (Done an emerge -u system some weeks ago, after that segfaulting |
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init, ls etc., and today having spent a whole day trying to fix the thing, |
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but XFree still won't compile correctly *sigh*), my opinion is that I have |
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made the right decision until now. |
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But a STABLE tree in portage CVS would make the decision to put Gentoo |
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on servers in production environments a lot more easier, when you know |
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that an emerge -u system doesn't break your whole server, but only merging |
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really necessary updates like security updates. |
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Nevertheless I hope the release frequency of such a STABLE tree would be |
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a lot higher than the release policy of Debian, which nearly forces you |
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to use the testing distribution if you do not want software which is |
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more than a year 'old'. |
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Just my 2 cents. |
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Regards, |
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Jens |
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P.S.: I hope this mail is more than just "hot air" and my english is not |
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too bad, as I'm quite tired while writing this mail ;) |
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Jens Hoffrichter / joho@××××××××.org / Joho@IRC / Fon: 0172/5376989 |
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"Entweder sind wir die einzige intelligente Lebensform im Universum, |
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oder wir sind es nicht. Beide Moeglichkeiten sind atemberaubend." |
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- Carl Sagan |
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