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[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Example: Last year, it took a lot longer for the BIND9 patches to make it
> to my Debian boxes than for the Gentoo boxes.

OK, that's not Redhat though.

> > 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.
>
> Just because you're building from source does not mean that the Gentoo
> developers have not tested the build before marking it stable. I only
> work with stable packages.

If you're building from source on your box, there is no way to guarentee
that it will run the same as on a developers box.  Gentoo makes nearly
every binary unique, since almost everyone's hardware & OS environment is
different.


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