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> gentoo is run emerge, study output, understand all of it, consider what |
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> flameeyes has to say about it, wonder if some screw ball fucked up glibc yet |
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> again, discuss in upgrade meetings, then proceed with lots of other crap ad |
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> nauseam. |
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That's why a was talking of CentOs as fist step. Conservative, |
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unexperimental approach. |
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Then you have those guys, that deal with 130 different machines now. |
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Once uniformly, they could all do Gentoo debugging and patching. The |
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distro would instantly work as smooth you want it. |
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> It's 130 different configs on 150 machines serving 30 different systems, many |
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> of them legacy systems. Management once asked what it will take to unlegacy |
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> all of that. They didn't like my answer: |
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> Triple the salary budget |
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> Two years. |
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That's cheap. Isn't a factor of ten always more to the truth? |
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Al |
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