On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>dustin AT zmanda DOT com schrieb:
>> Pretty much my only substantive gripe with Gentoo is that it
>> encourages its users to "live on the edge", which isn't really
>> appropriate for production systems.
>
>gentoo doesn't encourage to do that, it only provides the choice to do
>so. If you look at the gentoo-amanda-ebuild you will notice that it
>isn't on the edge at all, rather pretty conservative.
>
>The stable release there is still at 2.4.5 ... although the unstable
>latest ebuild runs fine and stable already.
>
>Although app-arch/tar is a different thing maybe.
>
>In general gentoo perfectly lets you choose particular releases of
>packages and stay with them, which is a choice I like to have very much.
>
>Stefan

I'm pretty firmly convinced it is kernel related now Stefan, see my other 
post.

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