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On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale 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 want |
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> 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 wants -rN |
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updates so I take that to mean he wants bug fixes and security updates but |
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everything else to stay that same and especially no potential ABI/API changes |
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Not an unreasonable thing actually - it's what you get with RedHat or any |
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decent enterprise distro |
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> I do understand that getting something stable and working then wanting |
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> to keep it that way. I'm just wondering what his mileage may be in the |
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> long run. |
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I can only imagine what will happen if he forgets that package.mask and then |
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removes it six months later:-) |
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