Re: [gentoo-server] requirements for a more stable portage tree

[Sandy McArthur]

Kurt Lieber wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 02:39:41PM +0100 or thereabouts, Martin Hajduch wrote:
>> in my humble opinion, it would be better (for my purposes) to have
>> more 'user friendly' way of configuring which packages and under
>> which circumstances i want to update (or get a notification about
>> an important update) when i do emerge -u world some kind of
>> configurable filtering with possibility to do customizations also
>> on per-package level
>
> Can you elaborate on how you see this working?  Not sure I
> understand. Again, try to focus on requirements instead of
> implementation.

If we could easily define a list of pacakges and versions that we want 
on each box it would make cluster management easier. Being able to bring 
a node update date with an approved list would be very helpful.

Sandy