On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:09:54PM -0400, David Zakar wrote: > Gentoo ebuilds sometimes do lots of rather obscene stuff, like co'ing > from the trunk of the project CVS and building that. I don't believe > most packages do that, but after having had the unfortunate experience > of having to deal with problems that arose from that kind of idiocy, > I've never understood how anyone thinks Gentoo is a serious server OS. > > Parting shot: at least I can type "yum -y update" and be reasonably > assured that my web server will be working afterwards. The whole "RPM > sucks" thing is so 2003, Phil. :)
Admittedly, I am new to gentoo, and probably should have know better, but I didn't realize that running `etc-update` would trash *everything*. Thank god there wasn't an update to /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow... - Rob .
