Re: Upgrading side by side in Gentoo - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Sam Mason
Subject Re: Upgrading side by side in Gentoo
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Msg-id 20081114123604.GX2459@frubble.xen.chris-lamb.co.uk
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In response to Re: Upgrading side by side in Gentoo  (Erik Jones <ejones@engineyard.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:31:51AM -0800, Erik Jones wrote:
> P.S.  To whomever said that Gentoo for for single users running
> cutting edge software, poppycock.

I'm a fellow ex-Gentoo user; moved to Debian and things are much easier.

> Any self-respecting company running
> Gentoo should be maintaining their own portage build servers just as a
> Debian based company would maintain their own build servers for apt or
> RedHat/CentOS for rpm/yum.

That all sounds awfully complicated for small setups to be organizing!
I can't imagine many organizations go to that trouble; or have I just
just had the luck of having my head in the sand for too long?  I'd
maybe expect the more technically proficient hosting companies will do
this, or is this more a symptom of rpm awkwardness whereas I'm used to
apt?  I haven't used RedHat for a while but I do remember getting into
dependency hell far too often whereas apt just tends to work.


  Sam

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