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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to |
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> > bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly |
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> > regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would |
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> > want to do this. I'm not sure how much experience the OP has tho. |
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> Michael's been around a while, his name is familiar. He did say he |
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> wants -rN updates so I take that to mean he wants bug fixes and |
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> security updates but everything else to stay that same and especially |
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> no potential ABI/API changes |
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One potential problem is ebuilds disappearing from the portage tree as |
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packages are updated, so it would be worth copying everything he uses (or |
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the whole tree) into an overlay. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning |
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to others. |
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