From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Othb9-0004Zs-8d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:55:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9491AE072E; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:54:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5134FE072E for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 13:54:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so949741ewy.40 for ; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:54:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Wu2bR2JTbKdKGmLjVth6vmlReAloSl8rLOuzXF4fLfs=; b=Q9HtdswiB01UP7L1RYUEno/7svS6t97sdUDA2K4hkxPdrVPHCb3f8bWacJDlIafZ6r FjmiXikDK33QGUUapMWrfY/W+98imcXrrf6GBByaOxAOHopTb4fyNGnUVJTrdNgxHia6 c8j+T9hxp3BXcvdnLZyFXg4hqNzeBk8h8s3XM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=eF/Nsw3JU3kkHoKxKYOF+AhrsRGitAurjSnp7+FFCIn47CuRzmch2729aJGxfNcVtj EdYbt4o/O7Jlo+4Jo83DdsBHgGyzKbrUs+Lv1LIHzipN3g1YmpHMH39HIA5ZgX1GQNks xafTSjkapfR7/hn4tief9fQ3qdtMEMl3AOHoo= Received: by 10.213.19.9 with SMTP id y9mr1069152eba.88.1284040498456; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:54:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v59sm2035701eeh.22.2010.09.09.06.54.53 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:54:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 15:54:50 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r2; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Al References: <201009091425.07632.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009091554.50662.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 0a08cf83-fc6b-4886-bcda-7f8afc61881b X-Archives-Hash: c999e861bc76dba4bd619035c3aa42df Apparently, though unproven, at 15:20 on Thursday 09 September 2010, Al did opine thusly: > > gentoo is run emerge, study output, understand all of it, consider what > > flameeyes has to say about it, wonder if some screw ball fucked up glibc > > yet again, discuss in upgrade meetings, then proceed with lots of other > > crap ad nauseam. > > That's why a was talking of CentOs as fist step. Conservative, > unexperimental approach. > > Then you have those guys, that deal with 130 different machines now. > Once uniformly, they could all do Gentoo debugging and patching. The > distro would instantly work as smooth you want it. You are not familiar with my environment. I am. We will not use Gentoo here. This is an informed decision and the demonstrable fact that can make me change my mind does not exist. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com