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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
>
> > I have. There is much I like and respect about Gentoo. But until someone cares
> > enough about it to give it a real installer I won't be able to consider it for
> > any kind of serious work.
>
> Ha - that's funny because I use it for all my servers for "serious" work.
>
> Most people go through eye candy installers in RH/Suse then graduate to
> Debian or something similar and then discover Gentoo and realize how
> fantastic the package system is compared to the others especially when it
> comes to maintenance. RH is a PITA to maintain and now that its no longer
> free (yes, Im ignoring Fedora) people are looking elsewhere. My experience
> has taught me that most RPM-based package systems are evil. Gentoo OTOH is
> very easy to customize and very easy to maintain.

How many servers are you maintaining.  I can't fathom maintaining alarge
number of server (where large is 100+) with the 'very easy to customize
and very easy to maintain' method that you've noted above.  Generally
speaking customization and maintanence are mutually exclusive without alot
of resources.

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