Re: Gentoo for production DB server?

Barry S wrote:

> In article <s12b6e1f.099@mothra.kshs.org>, "Christine Desmuke" wrote:
>
>>Hello:
>>
>>At the risk of starting a flame-war, I'd like some more details on the
>>use of Gentoo Linux for a production PostgreSQL server. There have been
>>a couple of comments lately that it is not such a great idea; does
>>anyone have specific experience they'd be willing to share?
>>
>
> <snip>
>
> I'm an ex-Gentoo admin, not because gentoo isn't fun, just that you need
> to really really like to constantly fiddle with it to keep it happy.
>
> The worst thing is to have not done an 'emerge world' in 2 months, only
> to discover that there are now 99 pending updates.

Do you was obliged to catch them ?

Gaetano