Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 16:10:42
Message-Id: 20160816171030.3193700f@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages by hw
1 On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 16:29:45 +0200, hw wrote:
2
3 > >> About 1.5 years --- not really a long time.
4 > >
5 > > You're kidding, right? You're running a production server without the
6 > > last 18 months' worth of security updates?
7 >
8 > What can you do when you don´t have the time to do the updates,
9
10 On a *production* server? You either find or buy the time. The
11 alternatives are much worse.
12
13 > especially when you know that they will give you trouble and can take
14 > all day or even longer.
15
16 You've got yourself into a loop here. You won't update often because you
17 get problems when doing so, but those problems occur because you don't
18 update often enough.
19
20
21 --
22 Neil Bothwick
23
24 Q: What's the proper plural of a 'Net-connected Windows machine?
25 A: A Botnet