On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 08:37:52 AM Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 12/08/2014 07:43, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> Plus, I refuse under any circumstances to run Gentoo on production > >> > >> > unless it's backed by a huge build farm or I have a large cluster that > >> > are all identical and have very special needs. > > > > I use Gentoo exclusively on the servers and desktops at home. I find it > > easier and more logical to maintain. > > I do have a VM dedicated to building binary packages though. > > I just got really tired of eternally being The Only One In The Place Who > Knows Gentoo(tm) and who doesn't blindly "emerge -uND world" on a remote > box then walk away....
People who do that should be taken outside behind the chemical shed and shot... > At least with apt and yum juniors can be trained fairly quickly to do > reliable world updates safely. This keeps the boss off my neck. That > makes me happy. I've seen installations start acting really weird because sysadmins decided to update a redhat box the official way (yum). Those usually ended up with backups being restored. It doesn't matter which distribution you use, you still need to test updates on a seperate environment first to ensure all the software running on the environment will still work post-upgrade. > On my personal servers and laptops, it will take on the order of atomic > warfare to make me give up my beloved Gentoo there :-) Hehe, same here. -- Joost
