Re: [tlug] Gentoo as a Server.

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 25/01/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> Josh Glover writes:
>
>  > I do not "emerge world"--which results in every package you have
>  > installed being upgraded to the latest stable version--on my
>  > desktop system, let alone a server.
>
> To each his own, but with the tone being "Josh sez, don't do that", I
> think you're excessively paranoid.

My default position is not to break a working system, which "emerge
world"--or "build world" or the various "update all of my packages,
please" tools on the binary distros--makes more likely than carefully
targetted upgrades.

I don't think that is excessively paranoid.

-Josh