[CentOS] Issues with CentOS in enterprise

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 05:47:53PM +0000, lhecking at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> > Anyone who advocates maintaining from source has simply never
> > administered more than a handful of machines at a time.
> > 
> > Great way to learn, but impractical for hundreds to thousands of
> > machines.
>  
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_%28software%29#Binary_Packages
>  http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap4
> 
>  Most useful if the machines in question are identical or near identical.

Sounds like Gentoo would provide infrastructure to automate much of
maintaining and distributing errata to systems... probably even on
source built packages (?)

Definitely won't scale if you're having to do it by hand though :)

Ray