On Saturday 05 of November 2005 12:34 Lisa Seelye wrote: > The first is the method of delivery: Through 'emerge sync', which > requires that users run this on a regular basis to receive relevant > news. Further, this process can take a very long time and transfers a > relatively large amount of data along with the news. > > My second concern is the frequency that users sync. A stated concern is > getting news to users before it is too late. Is there any way to gauge > the number of unique users which sync on a regular basis? When is "too > late"? Is there an acceptable window for delivering news? It is not > uncommon for me to refrain from running emerge sync (or even cvs up on > the entire gentoo-x86 tree) for weeks or months on machines I wish to > keep somewhat static.
How can users who don't run `emerge --sync` or any other syncing methods perform possibly dangerous upgrades of packages? Cheers, -jkt -- cd /local/pub && more beer > /dev/mouth
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