Re: Gentoo: To mirror or not to mirror?

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 08:52:42PM +0000, mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> I think Steve meant to qualify that statement as referring to large-scale
> enterprise deployments.

No, actually, I didn't.  There's no reason why a distribution
shouldn't work well for n systems, regardless of the value of n.

> I don't think Gentoo holds itself out as "the" solution for the kind
> of environments you deal with Steve, so why hold it to those standards?

The first problem I mentioned (lack of binaries) makes it impossible
to support even one system, much less any larger number.  The second
problem (BSD init scripts) makes it nearly impossible to build proper
packages for things that need to start on boot.

Neither problem has anything to do with the number of systems you run,
but I was hoping to point out how they the don't scale as proof of the
inherent problems.  "Not scaling" is just a symptom.

> But, for my po' lil K6/200, I'm thinking it's the easiest of the LFS-style
> projects.

Which is just fine.  It is your right to have your own opinion, and I
respect your right to be wrong.  ;-)

Steve
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