On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:03:53 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
Seriously, I have a half a dozen machines running here and the fact that I have to spend hours every couple of weeks to update
Why does it take hours to type "emerge world -uavD", review the results and press Enter? Gentoo is a prime example of why the command line can be more efficient than a GUI.
how well does that scale? Assume ten machines. Then you have ten windows open, ten machines running updates and then when they are all done, ten machines updating their configurations. Now, multiply by 10 to 100 machines or even more. Of all the distributions gentoo has the greatest possibility of surviving that scaling without needing a forklift but it sure needs a significant amount of transparent automation.
there are hours sometimes especially one of the bit pigs (glibc/xorg) need recompiling and I need to check in periodically to make sure nothing failed.
as a stated earlier, I think there are ways of making configuration file updates much more automatic and reliable. I've been experimenting with dispatch-conf and while it is better than etc-update it still can viciously bite the expert.
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