From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0fI7-0002Ui-Ih for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 12:57:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j74Ctu5N021242; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:55:56 GMT Received: from hercules.magbank.com (179.mupb.nyrk.nycenycp.dsl.att.net [12.98.143.179]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j74Cr12X030896 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 12:53:02 GMT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo? Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 09:04:23 -0400 Message-ID: <16CC9569DA3E4D41A1D4BC25D7B5A16A490FAF@hercules.magbank.com> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [gentoo-dev] Re: where goes Gentoo? Thread-Index: AcWYMlZpDtsAjK35Q7OQkAV/GXEHOwAwKPkQ From: "Eric Brown" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j74Cr12X030896 X-Archives-Salt: d9da2ea7-abc6-4ead-b7fe-1b01c83a59b0 X-Archives-Hash: bd327e11b8450faa87a6708ce6dd17ba Interesting thread. I have used Gentoo in enterprise situations very successfully, and I think the whole QA/live-tree argument is moot. In an enterprise environment, you might have a backup/testing machine to run your updates on first before they went live. You also wouldn't run new packages unless they passed your own QA tests first. Given the incredible flexibility of portage to support local mirrors, binary package preparation, and localized versions of packages (portdir_overlay), I would say that Gentoo is quite a contender in the enterprise environment. Perhaps we need some enterprise documentation to help people realize the full potential of portage? -Eric -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list