begin quote On Tue, 11 Nov 2003 13:25:18 -0500 Lisa Seelye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:36, Benjamin Coles wrote: > > It's an effort to get a stable tree out there that doesn't change > > much. We > > had a few people from IBM that said they would love to change to > > gentoo > > but the portage changes too quickly and they can't risk emerging > > something > > and having it break afterwards. There are many more factors in > > implementating this but it's still in the planning stages. > > > Sounds like just a slower changing rsync tree, based on the stable.g.o > motif. > No, in fact not. For Corporate use in this case, we should release a snapshot, reduced tree, stable tree, or something like that. Then -NEVER- -EVER- Change that. All updates to that tree should be separated into a second release tree which contains errata, and be avaiable for continuous update for about a year or more. Yes, this is in fact the thing that made Debian completely unusable at work (they apply fixes to their main tree) , and also rules out Gentoo. For corporate use, we know we can fork it. Thats not the issue. the issue is that we -will- fork things, and we need the baseline to -never ever- change. Because errata can then be merged into mainline at the corporates own time and developers will. This is actually a big hamstring with our current distribution model, that works great for homeusers and smaller servers, but badly prevents anyone from fully taking advantage of the flexibility of Gentoo. //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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