Charles Marcus wrote:
No groan here... I love the flexibility Gentoo gives... you can easily leave the primary system at 'stable', then just set certain packages to unstable for the latest/greatest.
My servers have been running nonstop for over 3 years, with just a few minor hiccups now and then that are quickly resolved by digging through logs and/or hitting google and/or the forums...
To be fair, most distros *do* have the ability to use extra 'unstable' repos, at least for most major packages, and if I wasn't using Gentoo, I would at *least* be using those...
My other box is Gentoo, and I quite like it. The biggest problem I had with it was that about a year ago when I was give control of it, it hadn't been synced in like 3 years, and it was so woefully out of date that when I tried to emerge -upDN world, it couldn't reliably upgrade because some packages no longer existed, including core packages (and the system profile).
Other than that, the only problem I've had was when a Metalog (sysloger) update came out that caused my entire system to hang at boot because the portage package didn't properly move a couple of files.
Later, Chris