On Sunday 07 December 2003 19:36, Lisa Seelye wrote: > 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.
That is still more work than if it is provided. It also doesn't offer backported securtity fixes. But that is basically what such a release would provide, however including the promiss that we will maintain it for a year. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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