Re: [gentoo-server] mysql 4.1 status

[Kirk Hoganson]

As someone responsible for dozens of production Gentoo boxes, I would 
personally love to see more stable options, not perhaps the Debian 
extreme, but something better suited to a production server environment. 
   I appreciate devs who take to the time to make sure an upgrade isn't 
going to break someone's infrastructure.  I have personally had some 
issues with minor security upgrade ebuilds breaking my systems of late. 
  With something like MySQL it is better to be late than early.

Kirk
Sancho2k.net Lists said the following:
dormando wrote:
Mind me; I haven't read up on the bugs, and this is probably a dumb
place to admit this.
MySQL (to me) is an one of those instances where different major
versions of the software serve almost different purposes. In this case I
believe debian got it right by having the default be the oldest
supported stable release, while more recent stable versions are
available by non-default.
Just a note, don't get too peeved,

It's a good observation, but a little bit apples and oranges. Debian is
*always* going to err on the side of being far out of date if it means
that there is more stability to gain. Not true for Gentoo. ;)
DS
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