Apparently, though unproven, at 14:49 on Thursday 19 August 2010, Neil 
Bothwick did opine thusly:

> On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:05:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > But for critical production machines? Not a flying chance in hell :-)
> > Too many times I've had to sort out the carnage from idiotic juniors
> > who blindly run "emerge -uND world" and walk away thinking Unix always
> > works like RedHat.
> 
> Why do you give these idiotic juniors the root password/sudo emerge rights?


Because I have better things to do than log into 137 machines and do what it 
takes to update world on each one? Remember this ain't a cluster - only about 
20 of them share any kind of common usage.

Besides, if I don't give them some form of responsibility they will never 
become responsible.

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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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