From gentoo-dev  Sat Aug 09 12:16:04 2014
From: Ambroz Bizjak <ambrop7 () gmail ! com>
Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 12:16:04 +0000
To: gentoo-dev
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: minimalistic emerge
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Hey all.

Regarding updates breaking the system, NixOS might be worth a try.
The functional nature of the package manager there lets you try out an
update, either live or in a VM, as well as roll back to the old
configuration in case of problems. Due to the design there's no risk
in building updates on a stable system, the build process won't
interfere until all the updates are built and you decide to try it out
in some way (other by exhausting RAM etc).
They also have both stable release branches and a master branch with
more updated packages.

(Not trying to start a distro war, please excuse me if it sounds like this.)

Best regards,
Ambroz

On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 1:06 PM, hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Duncan:
>> Peter Stuge posted on Sat, 09 Aug 2014 10:34:58 +0200 as excerpted:
>>
>>> Duncan wrote:
>>>> Red Hat is the gold standard, very long term commercial support,
>>>> IIRC 10 years, and very good community relations
>>>
>>> I've heard this on occasion, but reality is actually quite different.
>>>
>>> Red Hat is a software service provider. They do whatever their paying
>>> customers ask for. They do not take community relations very seriously
>>> in my experience. I believe it is the job of a single person.
>>
>
> [...]
>
> Can you open a new thread about redhat? I fail to see any connection to
> the initial issue.
>