On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:07:03 Dale wrote: > Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to > bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly > regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want > to do this. I'm not sure how much experience the OP has tho.
Michael's been around a while, his name is familiar. He did say he wants -rN updates so I take that to mean he wants bug fixes and security updates but everything else to stay that same and especially no potential ABI/API changes Not an unreasonable thing actually - it's what you get with RedHat or any decent enterprise distro > I do understand that getting something stable and working then wanting > to keep it that way. I'm just wondering what his mileage may be in the > long run. I can only imagine what will happen if he forgets that package.mask and then removes it six months later:-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
