Jose Luis Rivero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:18:34 +0100:
> Mixing software branches is very easy in the Gentoo world but it has > some problems. Are you going to install in your stable (production, > critial, important,...) system a combination of packages not tested > before? Your general post I agree with, but this part... If it's a "production, critical, important" system, then what is one doing installing updates on it directly without verifying them on a generally identical test system first? Either it's not actually so important in the grand scheme of things after all, or one will certainly find out eventually just how critical said machine is when it goes down due to "live" testing on a production critical machine. Of course, that doesn't excuse a distribution doing its best to ensure that doesn't happen, but no distribution is perfect. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
