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 1.4"
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:46:08 -0400
Stewart <bdlists@snerk.org> wrote:

> Stuart Bouyer wrote:
> > I think you misunderstand the complaint here. The problem (which has
> > been brought up this list previously) is that there is no way to
> > guarantee that I can get my server back to it's current configuration
> > if I have to reinstall at a later date. Not only will new versions of
> > ebuilds have been added to the portage tree, but there is a great
> > chance that ebuild for the version of the package that I'm happy using
> > will no longer be in portage tree. What I install using the 1.3
> > install CD today will be very different from what I installed 3 months
> > ago.
> 
> A long-standing problem is certainly the trigger-happy nature of so many
> 
> developers when it comes to removing "old" ebuilds. I've seen it to the 
> extreme where a new build was committed and all previous builds removed 
> before the new version (which already had Bugzilla reports) had even 
> been tested, letalone assured to be working.
> 

<rest of extremely good post snipped>

Just wanted to agree whole heartedly. Just yesterday I got so frustrated
with gentoo being such a moving target it's actually stopping me from
doing useful work, I actually considered going back to a prebuilt and
stable distro (slackware). Now that's pretty yukky, but at least I'd be
able to get on with doing what I'm supposed to be doing!

Cheers.
Jonathan Kelly.

|add usual aphorism referring to small change here|

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