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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, A. Khattri wrote:
> Again, the most important thing for me is ease and speed of maintenance.
> Updates consist of rsyncing the Portage tree (similar to cvsup in
> FreeBSD). This also makes it easy to setup local repositories and have
> just one server sync with the Gentoo mirrors and then other servers sync
> locally. Waiting for RH updates after a security problem sometimes meant
> waiting weeks for binaries. Same for Debian. Source-level updates are much

You have examples to back that up?  I've never had to wait weeks for an
update from RH.  All of the people i know that use Debian have never
complained about delays in geting security updates either.

> faster than having to backport patches, generate binaries and spend weeks
> testing.

How does one avoid testing if you're building everything from source?
That is the exact way to guarnetee that you have to do all the testing,
because the distro provider hasn't.


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