From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23717 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Jun 2003 00:52:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13975 invoked from network); 29 Jun 2003 00:52:58 -0000 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 02:52:57 +0200 From: Jens Hoffrichter To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030629005256.GA32755@deepthought.hausboot.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jens Hoffrichter , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030628091853.GD11566@inventor.gentoo.org> <20030629012404.1ef768a4.citizen428@cargal.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030629012404.1ef768a4.citizen428@cargal.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] the vision for Gentoo X-Archives-Salt: 2a9ce50e-4e9d-467d-8d50-ecc7ad699a5b X-Archives-Hash: d101202d8de02605f52da4105f7cee57 On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 01:24:04AM +0800, Michael Kohl wrote: > About how to achieve this I'm not quite sure, although the BSD way of > -stable/-current seems to be a viable solution to some of my issues, it > somehow doesn't feel "gentooish" to me. I think this is really a great idea and a step in right direction. I have migrated my personal work boxes not so long ago from Debian to Gentoo, because of the bleeding edge stuff which resides in portage an which is really fast in it after a new release of a software is done (Really nice to see, especially if you had to stay on XFree 4.0.x so long on Debian ;)) ) But I'm quite reluctant to put Gentoo anywhere on my servers, because of the moving target Gentoo is, and after having my first 'bad' experience with Gentoo (Done an emerge -u system some weeks ago, after that segfaulting init, ls etc., and today having spent a whole day trying to fix the thing, but XFree still won't compile correctly *sigh*), my opinion is that I have made the right decision until now. But a STABLE tree in portage CVS would make the decision to put Gentoo on servers in production environments a lot more easier, when you know that an emerge -u system doesn't break your whole server, but only merging really necessary updates like security updates. Nevertheless I hope the release frequency of such a STABLE tree would be a lot higher than the release policy of Debian, which nearly forces you to use the testing distribution if you do not want software which is more than a year 'old'. Just my 2 cents. Regards, Jens P.S.: I hope this mail is more than just "hot air" and my english is not too bad, as I'm quite tired while writing this mail ;) -- GPG: 1024D/CF884D50 F2E8 F7FC F823 6464 4E9D EFAB 6EE9 8B9C CF88 4D50 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jens Hoffrichter / joho@hausboot.org / Joho@IRC / Fon: 0172/5376989 "Entweder sind wir die einzige intelligente Lebensform im Universum, oder wir sind es nicht. Beide Moeglichkeiten sind atemberaubend." - Carl Sagan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list