yeah, however if you leave a system alone without updating it for a few
years, its totally a 2006.0 or wherever you left off at. You probably aren't
going to succeed at an 'emerge -Du world' either.  The version-less system
only works if you do the work to keep yours updated.  Don't get me wrong, I
think this is way better than the rest of the dead-end distros.

And, FWIW, there is some breakage between 2007.0 and 2008.0.  Off the top of
my head the way apache modules are compiled has changed.


I would like to suggest that if you (Collin) have no intention of updating
your system, you pick another distro.  Dealing with the a broken package
once or moth or so and updating your system alteast as frequently are just
part of how Gentoo was designed.  Failure to do so is going to leave you in
a situation very much like that of any other dead-end-distro, however there
are going to be many less resources within the Gentoo community for helping
you support your system.

.r'

On 12/02/2008, Randy Barlow <randy@electronsweatshop.com> wrote:
>
> Collin Starkweather wrote:
> > 5) 2008.0 is due on March 17.  Is it worthwhile putting off the upgrade
> > for 2008.0?  I wouldn't want to deal with two difficult upgrades if
> > there is breakage between 2007.0 and 2008.0.
>
> Remember that Gentoo is not a versioned OS.  2007.0 and 2008.0 are just
> live cd's.  You can keep updating a Gentoo machine indefinitely forever,
> so there is no concept of "my machine is running 2008.0" because my
> machine is as updated as the last time that I synced and ran emerge
> --update --deep world.  Make sense?
>
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