22 Nov
2003
22 Nov
'03
10:08
Using a source distro such as Gentoo on a production machine is a really stupid idea. Don't do it. Why is this not a good idea? This is a serious question and not intended to be inflamatory. Your resaoning concerning this will be interesting and benefit users of this list.
Because if a security problem was found in a large, complex package, say glibc, the effort and time involved in getting the patch in place and the machine secure again would be huge. There's probably other reasons, but that was the first that came to my mind. --
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