From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6131 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Dec 2003 13:11:25 -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 25813 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2003 13:11:20 -0600 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 20:11:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200312071145.55565.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1070822205.14950.761.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> In-Reply-To: <1070822205.14950.761.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_Ot30/vxFkAm2xzC"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200312072011.10028.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_KMAIL autolearn=ham version=2.55-uvt6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55-uvt6 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-ng (Milter interface) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers. X-Archives-Salt: e119785c-a559-48b2-8008-0ff83e2c276e X-Archives-Hash: 28842f636a4ce7f5212c395cff5ee3f6 --Boundary-02=_Ot30/vxFkAm2xzC Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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=20 backported securtity fixes. But that is basically what such a release would= =20 provide, however including the promiss that we will maintain it for a year. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_Ot30/vxFkAm2xzC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/03tNbKx5DBjWFdsRAib6AJ9att4utGTT8xQpdbcnUlv4jJHayACfcYz2 BnHjMUHngptTKZQBC9U69d0= =Ep59 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_Ot30/vxFkAm2xzC--