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[raven at themaw.net]

On Mon, 17 May 2004, Brad Campbell wrote:

> Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> > too late
> > 
> > various (unix'es/VMS and windoze)->redhat->mandrake->gentoo (~2- yrs ago
> > now!)
> > 
> > <duck&run> when are the rest of you moving from legacy distros's ?
> > </duck&run>
> > 
> 
> When Gentoo can guarantee that upgrading a package for a security patch is not going to alter its 
> behaviour in any way.
> 
> Debian backports security patches to guarantee that when you upgrade that server 12,000km away 
> remotely over a piece of wet string that your application will not change its behaviour in any way, 
> shape or form.

I've tried many times to use Debian.

It's necessary to go to testing to get reasonably upto date packages but 
then I have all sorts of problems.

For example, right now I can't build pine 4.58 on sparc. Builds ok on 
stable but not on testing. Indeed openssl doesn't build either. It seems 
someone has screwed up the 64-bitness of libc6.

Doing a dist-upgrade on Debian testing has always been ricky.

So Gentoo is not alone.

Ian