Apparently, though unproven, at 15:20 on Thursday 09 September 2010, Al did opine thusly:
> > gentoo is run emerge, study output, understand all of it, consider what > > flameeyes has to say about it, wonder if some screw ball fucked up glibc > > yet again, discuss in upgrade meetings, then proceed with lots of other > > crap ad nauseam. > > That's why a was talking of CentOs as fist step. Conservative, > unexperimental approach. > > Then you have those guys, that deal with 130 different machines now. > Once uniformly, they could all do Gentoo debugging and patching. The > distro would instantly work as smooth you want it. You are not familiar with my environment. I am. We will not use Gentoo here. This is an informed decision and the demonstrable fact that can make me change my mind does not exist. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com