On 7/14/06, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, is there any hope for me? I thought maybe I'd send this email and encourage your efforts towards Gentoo for servers and maybe put in a request for small steps like a more stable portage tree. Anyway, thanks for listening.
Seems to me that the simplest solution to your problem, for the time being, is to simply avoid running emerge -uD world or the like. If there are a few applications which you want to be up to date, only update those apps. If they need newer versions of libraries or other applications in order to work properly portage will take care of that. As far as security updates go, you can use the glsa-check [1] tool to make sure that your system isn't affected by any known vulnerabilities in Gentoo software, and if you are affected glsa-check can update the required software as well. I think that's as good as you're going to get until there's an uber-stable portage branch. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-handbook.xml?part=1&chap=14 -- [email protected] mailing list
