> Of course not. Nothing is perfect, and life's a bitch. However there is less > chance that my system will get messed up if I upgrade Mandrake using urpmi than > with Gentoo. It's the same with having the latest and greatest on any system. > Mandrake Cooker or Debian Unstable/Testing have a better chance of killing my > system too.
I wasn't talking about using Gentoo's unstable offerings... They aren't included in my sync downloads. Much of Gentoo is built on Debian (This is obvious from the ebuild readme files). Similar to the way Debian does it, there are unstable ebuilds in Gentoo which are moved to stable later on. Kev.
