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 1OtjzU-0007rm-VZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:28:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62563E07F1; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:28:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 254CFE07F1 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:28:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 475567564B8 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:28:34 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:28:27 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo Message-ID: <20100909172827.33aa40d2@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <201009091726.19235.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <201009091425.07632.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100909161255.64065a2b@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <201009091726.19235.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6cvs31 (GTK+ 2.20.1; 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@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/XBQfvYXn_MWr919q.pxy5f1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 6ce32b63-22b3-4194-8f2a-e34f91f58761 X-Archives-Hash: c0bde983227a9f25377dbf521d21066c --Sig_/XBQfvYXn_MWr919q.pxy5f1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:26:18 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I don't want it. =20 I know. > I like Gentoo in -dev > I will not allow Gentoo anywhere near -prod >=20 > This is a very considered decision, as a result of already having to > fix (many times) the monumental fuck ups that happen when it is done in > an environment such as this. >=20 > Why should I do all the work of pinning packages to known good versions > when the RHEL devs have already done all the heavy lifting for me? =20 You shouldn't, that's why I made the point about there not being a stable, frozen version of the portage tree. If that existed, pinning at a stable setup would be doable, otherwise it would be a nightmare. --=20 Neil Bothwick Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving to where you can't find them. --Sig_/XBQfvYXn_MWr919q.pxy5f1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkyJCzAACgkQum4al0N1GQNNKgCgoRbGbMIS7bC0CwJXLJfhKhG1 16QAnjixrKblvYX+dAzXZ/WvDxZlicSH =OniN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/XBQfvYXn_MWr919q.pxy5f1--