Re: Gentoo for production DB server?

In article <413839B2(dot)6080208(at)bigfoot(dot)com>, Gaetano Mendola wrote:
> Barry S wrote:
>
>> In article <s12b6e1f(dot)099(at)mothra(dot)kshs(dot)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
>
Well, in a sense, yes. You see the entire reason I was updating was
because of a security patch for sshd.

The chain of dependencies in this case (eg. sshd -> glibc -> gcc),
mandated that I wound up needing to do a fairly substantial emerge.

Don't get me wrong, I like Gentoo as a technology, I just personally
think its not ready for use in production servers.

-Barry