Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

Posted Sep 2, 2014 14:34 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by clopez
Parent article: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems

But, as a gentoo user, I don't think gentoo fits this setup very well in some respects, while it fits very well in others ...

I can take a snapshot and then do an "emerge world" - great for keeping my system up-to-date, and makes a great development platform.

But any developer who develops for just the one distro - the one on his own system - is an idiot if he wants others to use it too. For testing purposes you really need to build it on a couple of distros. In my case, I'd build it on the latest SLES (provided it wasn't too long in the tooth).

Then the version that's released for general use is against some version of LTS. Those who want bleeding edge run the rolling release, those who want stable run it against an LTS.

Cheers,
Wol