On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:11:02PM +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Content-Description: signed data > 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 ? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
