Thus spake Donnie Berkholz on Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:36:19AM CDT > > Here are a couple of thoughts. There's a single ldap USE flag spec'd for > > Gentoo. There are, however, several widely different ways in which ldap > > can be > > used. For instance, although I have ldap in my USE flags for my desktop > > system, I don't want to use ldap authentication, nor do I want the system > > to > > even try to use it. I do want ldap capabilities in applications such as > > evolution, and ldap clients, and proper schemas installed by various such > > applilcations which can take advantage of them. Perhaps rather than a > > single > > "ldap" USE flag, there need to be at least a couple - "ldap-auth", > > "ldap-client", etc. > > Propose this to the LDAP maintainers or gentoo-dev. It probably won't be > heard and heeded in this forum.
You're probably right about that. > > One of the disadvantages of Gentoo is that it follows the open source maxim > > "release early, release often" pretty literally. The choices are either to > > keep an identical non-production server around as a test bed or to not try > > to > > keep up2date on stuff once the system is stable. I do live dangerously, > > and > > reserve the right to whine about it when I get my butt bitten ;-) One of > > the > > advantages of Gentoo is that the dev community and forums are generally > > very > > helpful in solving stuff when things break. bugs.gentoo.org is a great > > resource to which I successfully turn more often than I would wish. > > You should always have a test-bed for production servers, regardless of > which distro you're using. Yes, Donnie, there are things that I _should_ do and then there's a subset of these that I _can_ do. I've been hosting Internet services for 12 years. I run a very small one-man operation w. two servers. Currently I do have a 2nd box identical to one of my 2 production servers, but it's slated to replace the older of the two production servers. I rely on my own skill and the care and skill of the devs of the Linux distros that I use to avoid problems. One of my servers uses Debian, which has proved _very_ reliable across substantial distro version upgrades. I've had pretty good luck with Gentoo, too. -- Lindsay Haisley | "Everything works | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | if you let it" | available at 512-259-1190 | (The Roadie) | <http://www.fmp.com/pubkeys> http://www.fmp.com | | -- [email protected] mailing list
