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From: Lisa Seelye <lisa@gentoo.org>
To: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>
Cc: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 13:36:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1070822205.14950.761.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312071145.55565.pauldv@gentoo.org>

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On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 05:45, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> In general when you have to maintain such a system you want to keep it as it 
> is. To avoid it breaking, or users being annoyed with changed interfaces. 
> This means that you install once, and after that want to change as little as 
> possible. With the current portage this is not easy because ebuilds disapear 
> after they have been succeeded by newer ones.

Valid enough concern.  However if I was building a series of Gentoo
servers that were to be as stable as could be I would go through the
portage tree and prune non-server stuff (such as x11-*) and then create
my own Portage tree to sync against.

-- 
Regards,
-Lisa
<Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior>

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-07 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-05 19:38 [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers Brett Simpson
2003-12-05 19:51 ` Lisa Seelye
2003-12-05 20:10   ` Brett Simpson
2003-12-05 20:34     ` Brett Simpson
2003-12-05 20:45     ` Jon Portnoy
2003-12-05 21:33       ` Don Seiler
2003-12-05 22:34         ` Mike Williams
2003-12-06  3:20           ` Don Seiler
2003-12-06  3:34         ` Corey Shields
2003-12-06  3:30     ` Corey Shields
2003-12-07 10:45   ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-12-07 18:36     ` Lisa Seelye [this message]
2003-12-07 19:11       ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-12-08 18:25         ` david
2003-12-08 19:30           ` Lance Albertson
2003-12-07 20:15       ` Jeff Smelser
2003-12-16 22:13         ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-12-06 12:16 ` Sven Vermeulen

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