Re: [gentoo-dev] making %95 of users happy

[Terje Kvernes <terjekv@math.uio.no>]

Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@cs.kun.nl> writes:

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> Why not create a new profile, call it gentoo-stable-1.0 or whatever,
> and fix the packages that are part of it. At the moment a security
> update is needed (or a critical bug gets fixed), the packages
> involved can be bumped in the profile. It is possible with the
> current architecture, it only needs some extra files in cvs, and an
> explanation on the website.

  the only problem I see with using a profile is that it'll "lock" you
  down more than you'd like.  it would be nice to say "give me a
  stable core, but a bleeding edge movieplayer and games".
 
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> If you run a webserver locally and have a lot of gentoo machines, it
> is very useful to serve the /usr/portage/distfiles dir on the
> webserver, and to name this dir as first mirror in your
> make.conf. This way emerge will first try to download something
> locally, when that failes it will try the normal mirrors.

  nah, I just run my own mirror of Gentoo.  so much easier and a lot
  less fuzz.  :)

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Terje