Re: [gentoo-user] How to "freeze" my Gentoo system

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote:

> Could he just not sync and call it a day?  I suspect this is going to
> bite him one day tho.  We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly
> regular.  I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want
> to do this.  I'm not sure how much experience the OP has tho.

Michael's been around a while, his name is familiar. He did say he wants -rN 
updates so I take that to mean he wants bug fixes and security updates but 
everything else to stay that same and especially no potential ABI/API changes

Not an unreasonable thing actually - it's what you get with RedHat or any 
decent enterprise distro

> I do understand that getting something stable and working then wanting
> to keep it that way.  I'm just wondering what his mileage may be in the
> long run.

I can only imagine what will happen if he forgets that package.mask and then 
removes it six months later:-)

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