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On Sunday 07 December 2003 01:56 pm, Eric Paynter wrote:
> Nobody said they have to apply every change. You really only need to
> apply the security patches. As for the rest, read the changelog and
> see if there is any benefit to updating - often there isn't. I've
> seen a lot of packages go from, for example, version-x-r3 to
> version-x-r4 and the only change in the changelog is "marked stable
> on platform y", when it's not even installed on platform y. So it's
> just a recompile for nothing.
Your right, you don't.. But lets says package A comes out with a security fix.
After this box has been up for year, most of this stuff the server has, is
probably gone. Hell, 6 months is a long time in gentoo world. He tries to
update and it says he has to upgrade 50 others because gentoo has grown since
then.. Why should he have to upgrade the 50 others?? Do a one shot or nodeps
you say? Then your taking a chance the ebuild/build process will fail due to
the fact the other packages are 'old'..
Its not as that far off, since it happened to people running gentoo. The
gentoo tree it highly depended on you keeping up with it..
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It is easier to fix Unix than to live with NT.
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