From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21097 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Dec 2003 14:34:44 -0600 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 6519 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2003 14:34:38 -0600 From: Brett Simpson To: Gentoo Dev Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 15:34:33 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1070653863.12159.49.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> <200312051510.36537.simpsonb@hillsboroughcounty.org> In-Reply-To: <200312051510.36537.simpsonb@hillsboroughcounty.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312051534.33272.simpsonb@hillsboroughcounty.org> X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.37 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers. X-Archives-Salt: acc7e560-6a3d-4c5c-b605-87ff99ca16df X-Archives-Hash: e470a89f26ea3bf3810f516e1a01cc9e On Friday 05 December 2003 03:10 pm, Brett Simpson wrote: > On Friday 05 December 2003 02:51 pm, Lisa Seelye wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 14:38, Brett Simpson wrote: > > > Since this was based off of Gentoo 1.0 how relevant is this for the > > > current 1.4 release in a production server environment? > > > > Gentoo is flexible enough to be placed in just about any type of > > environment. As we move closer and closer to Portage-ng the > > administrator of a production server will only gain more control over > > the Gentoo machines he or she maintains. > > > > With the control over the dependency tree and portage tree that Gentoo > > affords its users there is no good reason to not consider Gentoo for any > > type of machine - production or otherwise. More management questions: So would I be correct in saying that the "bleeding edge" portion in Gentoo 1.0 is now equivalent to the unstable packages in Gentoo 1.4? And that someone who installs Gentoo by default won't get an unstable/untested bleeding edge package unless they configure the system to install unstable packages? Thanks, Brett -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list