From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4blk-0006Ba-JZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:00:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7F9xErC021834; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:59:14 GMT Received: from pythagoras.zen.co.uk (pythagoras.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.140]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7F9rvjX023786 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:53:57 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by pythagoras.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1E4bfl-0006NB-FX for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:54:25 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAFCD1405F61 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:54:21 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:54:19 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? Message-ID: <20050815105419.0d255fc7@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200508151106.59781.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> References: <1123371608.32004.3.camel@sf.rout.dyndns.org> <20050815091858.59b90c39@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <200508151106.59781.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Mon__15_Aug_2005_10_54_19_+0100_fZIVG2A1=IW23zKY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Pythagoras-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 927e8780-b0ed-428f-82da-1be4078a8e66 X-Archives-Hash: 6c9787255982f50879b77d7cc0639527 --Signature_Mon__15_Aug_2005_10_54_19_+0100_fZIVG2A1=IW23zKY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 11:06:59 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > That's the whole point. ebuilds need to be thoroughly tested before > > being marked stable, so you need a testing branch. > > Without it, your stable branch would not be. >=20 > I am a long time ~arch-only user and have/had less problems, than friends Spoken like a true geek :) > using the stable tree. Plus if there is a problem, my friends > with stable will hit it too some days/week later - and I am there > 'support', so it is good for me, if I already found a solution. Oh, there's more :) I too have found ~arch to be extremely reliable. The main downside is the extra time spent on updates, which could be a killer in a production environment. --=20 Neil Bothwick Head: (n.) the part of a disk drive which detects sectors and decides which of the two possible values to return: 'lose a turn' or 'bankrupt.' --Signature_Mon__15_Aug_2005_10_54_19_+0100_fZIVG2A1=IW23zKY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDAGZOum4al0N1GQMRAi1eAKDXHxAnZa0EMIXCsBjwd84VgtifaACghB5/ kdzqRr4jTrYpD/6w4v7R6Co= =zu6x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Mon__15_Aug_2005_10_54_19_+0100_fZIVG2A1=IW23zKY-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list