From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20527 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Sep 2003 12:50:40 -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 8307 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2003 12:50:39 -0000 From: Jan Krueger Organization: microgalaxy.net To: azarah@gentoo.org, Troy Dack Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 14:56:05 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 Cc: Gentoo-Dev References: <1062922741.7363.26.camel@waterhouse.internal.lan> <1062931703.8455.80.camel@nosferatu.lan> In-Reply-To: <1062931703.8455.80.camel@nosferatu.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309071456.05700.jk@microgalaxy.net> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions X-Archives-Salt: b6a4b44e-a262-4ba3-84a2-b87cda6d323f X-Archives-Hash: 081f517f5df2aaec360fa41a57b48e45 On Sunday 07 September 2003 10:48, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 10:19, Troy Dack wrote: > > "Gentoo moves pretty fast; if you don't stop and look around once and > > awhile, you could miss out." > > Amen Thats not just Amen, that actually _is_ a big Problem if you are administrating some servers that are supposed to provide high quality services. One of the reasons for this is, as good as it is and i like it very much, portage. And a very timeconsuming thing is having to update things when there is no need to do so. I could easily bypass this problem by creating my own portage tree and modifying ebuilds. Some do so. That can get timeconsuming, especially when the official portage tree changes a lot in basic ebuilds, and additionally i would loose some very nice portage features. So far i came to the conclusion not to use gentoo on my servers and instead join gentoo-dev. I am happy to see that there is some progess with portage as can be verified on the project pages :) Having to update comments in some configuration files on each of the servers is silly and a waste of time that someone has to pay for. No need for this. If i dont update the comments after some time i will end up with differing documentation (the one in man make.conf and the comments in make.conf) that can cause more harm then good. No, i dont want comments in configuration files. And yes, i deleted all cruft from my apache.conf, squid.conf, whatever.conf. Jan -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list