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From: Lisa Seelye <lisa@gentoo.org>
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Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 13:36:45 -0500
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.
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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=20
> is. To avoid it breaking, or users being annoyed with changed interfaces.=
=20
> This means that you install once, and after that want to change as little=
 as=20
> possible. With the current portage this is not easy because ebuilds disap=
ear=20
> 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.

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

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