On Sun, 2003-12-07 at 05:45, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > In general when you have to maintain such a system you want to keep it as it > is. To avoid it breaking, or users being annoyed with changed interfaces. > This means that you install once, and after that want to change as little as > possible. With the current portage this is not easy because ebuilds disapear > after they have been succeeded by newer ones.
Valid enough concern. However if I was building a series of Gentoo servers that were to be as stable as could be I would go through the portage tree and prune non-server stuff (such as x11-*) and then create my own Portage tree to sync against. -- Regards, -Lisa <Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior>
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