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On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 3:52 AM, Ста Деюс <sthu.deus@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hi, R0b0t1. |
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> On Sun, 9 Jul 2017 19:18:50 -0500, you wrote: |
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>> > I run mixed stable and testing packages, and it seems to work very |
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>> well. The issues I have had had made me consider switching to entirely |
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>> testing (~amd64) because a lot of issues are actually |
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>> incompatibilities between stable and testing packages. There are some |
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>> people in the IRC channel on Freenode who will recommend the same |
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>> thing. |
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> I consider security that is more on stable part that on testing, and i |
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> do not need whole system to be testing -- just one package that so |
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> poorly designed/made that requires for its new version to abandon all |
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> the data used for its previous version and make all that data anew! -- |
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> So, after that had been done for the new version (on another system), i |
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> would use that data for the new version in Gentoo (rather than |
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> recreate that data again for old version and then recreate again when |
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> new version becomes stable) -- but in Gentoo the program is in testing |
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> for now. |
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Compared to distributions like Debian, Fedora, and Ubuntu, nearly all |
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of the packages in portage are "new," even the stable versions. As |
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such I'm not really sure you can call the testing packages less secure |
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by virtue of being newer. The distributions listed are the main |
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targets for security support and Gentoo misses out on most of that. On |
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Gentoo security support is often provided as a new version of the |
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software in question, so testing packages might be more secure than |
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stable ones! In a similar vein depending on what you want to do and |
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what you need to install, the testing versions have more useful |
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features or crucial bugfixes. |
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I don't intend this to be an argument to convince you to globally |
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keyword ~arch. If you don't see the need for it then that is the end |
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of it. However, as a software developer I often need a testing version |
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of a package, and that needs other packages which are in testing, and |
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eventually there is some widely used package which that needs to be |
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the version in testing or a set of packages that is mutually exclusive |
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that becomes selected. It eventually starts to look easier to just |
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install all testing packages by default. Gentoo is a distribution |
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mainly for developers. Even if you are not a developer, I suspect you |
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will start using software that is closer to the bleeding edge by |
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virtue of using Gentoo. At some point you may start having problems |
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like people have outlined in this thread, and if you do, do not be |
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afraid to start using unstable packages. |
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R0b0t1. |