Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Monday 15 August 2005 11:54, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> 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.
> >
> > 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.

oh yeah... and don't wait too long with the updates.. less than once every few 
days and the problems will pile up... from my humble experience, it is much 
less troublesome, to do daily updates, than weekly ones ;)
So ~arch is only for people who don't mind having some compiling in the 
background running.
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