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From: Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge --update world
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:29:10
Message-Id: 01b701c6d196$1870e7f0$450a0a0a@locutus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge --update world by Neil Bothwick
1 ...even if...
2
3 The problem is that there is always something to emerge every day it seems
4 and it's getting tiresome, especially for things like KDE or Gnome that are
5 huge and take days on my 1Ghz Celeron.
6
7 I run a firewall and only ssh access (no telnet). There are no users on the
8 server (except me), so I'm not real worried about "gaping security holes",
9 as I'm sure the 0.5.3 version will fix it and be released not far after the
10 -r1, -r2, -r3 that I tend to always see.
11
12 > -----Original Message-----
13 > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:neil@××××××××××.uk]
14 > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 1:49 AM
15 > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
16 > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge
17 > --update world
18 >
19 > On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 01:31:06 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
20 >
21 > > I'd rather just upgrade when a new "real" version is
22 > available instead
23 > > of all these itty bitty incremental upgrades like "rc1"
24 > "rc2" etc. or
25 > > 0.5.2-r1 and 0.5.2-r3 etc.
26 >
27 > Even if 0.5.2-r1 contains a patch to fix a gaping security
28 > hole in 0.5.2?
29 >
30 >
31 > --
32 > Neil Bothwick
33 >
34 > PENTIUM: Produces Erroneous Numbers Thru Incorrect
35 > Understanding of Mathematics
36 >
37
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