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[Collins Richey]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:08:25 -0500, Michael Hipp <michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> > Nice article at the following url as noted on linuxtoday:
> >
> > http://distrocenter.linux.com/distrocenter/04/09/23/1944240.shtml?tid=127&tid=108
> >
> > I guess you might say gento is finally coming "into the closet."
> 
> Good article Collins, thanks.
> 
> Was a bit surprised by this:
> "meaning GCC, GlibC, and other necessary programs for bootstrapping are
> precompiled"
> 
> I was taught that one thing you never do is allow s/w dev tools on a
> production machine, especially one that is accessible by far-flung
> customers and even possibly with shell accounts.
> 
> It could be argued they're compromising security for Gentoo's sake.
> 
Yes, the standard gentoo install includes a development environment,
but anyone worth the name of an admin for a production machine that is
exposed to the internet would strip this out before the green flash
died away from the "install complete" message. Gentoo doesn't have a
server ready install process, but it's pretty easy to roll your own
including a rollout to multiple servers, presuming that you use
identical hardware for each server, otherwise it's a little sticky.

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