On 12/02/2012 11:19 AM, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > On 02/12/2012 08:02, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> I think you have Stockholm syndrome. I've updated thousands of packages >> this month. I cannot do this for each one, and even if I could, there's >> a huge (unnecessary) opportunity cost to doing so. > > Sorry but there is no way you could have updated thousands of packages > _in stable_ at least not for a single system, this month (and I take it > as November, rather than December). >
If this was a single system, I wouldn't be wasting your time. > I have four differently-configured servers in front of me, and none had > more than 51 packages installed on it during the course of November — > and this is with quite a few packages being updated more often (Icinga > and Munin) because I've been working on them. > > As I said in the other messages, I agree that we can do better – and > going with USE=server to me looks like going better – but I don't buy > the strawmen arguments that we have to cover for the totally unskilled > sysadmin that thinks he can run Gentoo in production and can't even see > what the updates are. So please drop it. > The USE=server solution is fine with me; the whole openldap thing was really tangential to the point I was trying to make. And for some reason it's not as fun to argue in the morning as it is at 2am, so thanks for working on it, it's dropped =)
