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yeah, however if you leave a system alone without updating it for a few |
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years, its totally a 2006.0 or wherever you left off at. You probably aren't |
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going to succeed at an 'emerge -Du world' either. The version-less system |
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only works if you do the work to keep yours updated. Don't get me wrong, I |
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think this is way better than the rest of the dead-end distros. |
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And, FWIW, there is some breakage between 2007.0 and 2008.0. Off the top of |
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my head the way apache modules are compiled has changed. |
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I would like to suggest that if you (Collin) have no intention of updating |
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your system, you pick another distro. Dealing with the a broken package |
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once or moth or so and updating your system alteast as frequently are just |
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part of how Gentoo was designed. Failure to do so is going to leave you in |
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a situation very much like that of any other dead-end-distro, however there |
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are going to be many less resources within the Gentoo community for helping |
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you support your system. |
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.r' |
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On 12/02/2008, Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Collin Starkweather wrote: |
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> > 5) 2008.0 is due on March 17. Is it worthwhile putting off the upgrade |
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> > for 2008.0? I wouldn't want to deal with two difficult upgrades if |
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> > there is breakage between 2007.0 and 2008.0. |
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> Remember that Gentoo is not a versioned OS. 2007.0 and 2008.0 are just |
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> live cd's. You can keep updating a Gentoo machine indefinitely forever, |
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> so there is no concept of "my machine is running 2008.0" because my |
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> machine is as updated as the last time that I synced and ran emerge |
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> --update --deep world. Make sense? |
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> Randy Barlow |
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> http://electronsweatshop.com |
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