Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers.

[Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@gentoo.org>]

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On Sunday 07 December 2003 19:36, Lisa Seelye wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 05:45, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > In general when you have to maintain such a system you want to keep it as
> > it is. To avoid it breaking, or users being annoyed with changed
> > interfaces. This means that you install once, and after that want to
> > change as little as possible. With the current portage this is not easy
> > because ebuilds disapear after they have been succeeded by newer ones.
>
> Valid enough concern.  However if I was building a series of Gentoo
> servers that were to be as stable as could be I would go through the
> portage tree and prune non-server stuff (such as x11-*) and then create
> my own Portage tree to sync against.

That is still more work than if it is provided. It also doesn't offer 
backported securtity fixes. But that is basically what such a release would 
provide, however including the promiss that we will maintain it for a year.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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