Re: [tlug] Kana-Problems

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:30:30PM -0400, Joe Larabell wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Josh Glover wrote:
> 
> >On 21/04/2008, Niels Kobschaetzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com> wrote:
> >
> 
> It sounds as if Niels is referring to the kind of "updates" that, for instance, 
> RedHat does within a single release -- where you can pretty much be sure 
> nothing major will break without having to check everything out yourself. He 
> *did* say "as long as I don't do a distribution-upgrade".


Yes, or CentOS.  But NOT Fedora, where every yum -y update (which is, go
head, this is a test machine) is an adventure.  Especially right now,
with Rawhide, but that, of course, is asking for trouble. 

> reasons I switched to Gentoo was because I didn't like having my system slowly 
> drift away from the bleeding edge and having to re-install from CD/FTP every 
> couple years in order to keep up with the times.

Yes, I know that feeling too.  With servers, I'm ready to leave it at
that, with my desktop, I try to keep up to date, but again, within
reason. If Niels looks on the BSD lists or forums, you'll see that the
gurus all recommend against portupdate -a (all ports.)
> 

> But, you have to admit, that bleeding edge has a price. I keep "system" 
> my installation (note, this is a personal desktop machine so while the borkage 
> was a PITA, it was hardly a critical goof).

I think most of us have been there, done that, and of course, gotten the
tshirt.  


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