On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:11:02PM +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
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> 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.
> 

I've done this internally at my company.  Eventually I plan on
deploying a product with it.  Right now it is a Pain in the Ass(tm) to
maintain and I do'nt have that kind of time currently.

> 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.
> 

This is exactly what needs to happen.  I just haven't seen where any
of this development is going on, so I have been unable to contribute.
Is there even a gentoo project page for Gentoo Enterprise ?

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