> My beef with portage in my specific production setup is the amount of work it > takes my guys to keep everything up to date. We don't have 150 identical > servers in a farm (I'd love that and would switch to Gentoo immediately if it > were). I have 130 completely different configs and uses for those servers. >
How about migrating them one-by-one to CentOs first and in a second step to Gentoo? Sure every servers migration is work. But there will be routine once you have migrated 10. Having a uniform serverfarm should pay the efforts after a reasonable time. Al