I just want to point out that I have gone through 4 years of gcc/glibc/binutils/baselayout/udev/etc. updates on 8 production servers with varying hardware _with the hardened profile_ and I've never had to re-emerge world once.
In addition, I don't see a huge drawback to using other distro's LiveCDs. Some distros specialize in making a LiveCD do everything possible, like Knoppix. This group isn't maintaining a portage tree, they are just making their LiveCD awesome. Why not piggyback on their efforts (our users are doing it anyway)? That way we can focus our resources on making portage great, which is Gentoo's true strength. With Gentoo, once you are up and running, releases become very unimportant. What do you think? -Cory On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:22:34AM -0500, Caleb Cushing wrote: > I personnally would like to see stage tarballs updated more frequently > if an arch receives a major update in system, like gcc or glibc, even > if this is only an r patch because these are a pain to install, and by > update I mean something new goes stable. Such releases are infrequent, > but make it painful when doing a new install because you know that you > have to rebuild world from the start. > > On 3/1/07, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Andrew Gaffney wrote: > >> Also, what's the point? Everything you use to install from the minimal > >> is fetched from the internet. The only thing that an updated minimal > >> would give us is a slightly more hardware support during the install. > > > >This slightly more hardware support is almost always what new boxen need. > >Of course people can > >install Gentoo from another more up to date other distro, but wouldn't it > >be better if that were > >optional and not mandatory? That if people have new hardware which is not > >supported by their own > >distro, that they can pop in the latest gentoo cd and know that if there > >is any distro whose > >install cd supports their hardware, that gentoo will too? > > > >There would also be many more chances to fix things, since these images > >would be relatiely short > >lived. Since each image would be more similar than the previous one than > >our current 6 months apart > >releases are to eachother, testing could be spread out more. And our users > >would get more chances > >to help us test. Releng might not have to take a snapshot and try to > >stable it a la debian. Instead > >all developers could work together to fix bugs in stable found by users > >testing the install cd. > > > >Marijn -- [email protected] mailing list
