[ale] Web server OS

Pat Regan thehead at patshead.com
Tue Dec 23 23:35:04 EST 2008


Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> In Gentoo-land, each package is pretty much managed as an independent 
> unit and as such there aren't generally times where you're "forced" to 
> upgrade because updates to a distro version stop.  No distro version, no 
> version-keyed updates.


Yes, that is exactly the "feature" that is a huge flaw for me :).

I can see a lot of situations where it would be a feature.  I just see
it as creating more work when you want to maintain a stable environment
without security problems.

Pat

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