Re: [gentoo-dev] Questions on overlays, repositories and PMS

2018-02-24 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2018.02.24 01:32, Michael Lienhardt wrote: > > > Il 23/02/2018 20:37, Alec Warner ha scritto: > > My general observation is that Gentoo is not successful as an > organization about deprecating and removing things. One area where > Gentoo has done well is in EAPI and in PMS itself, with mostly-

[gentoo-dev] glibc 2.16/19 for Gentoo Prefix on antique kernels

2018-02-24 Thread Benda Xu
Hi all, Yes, it's 2018. But there are still RHEL 4 and 5 systems running antique kernels such as 2.6.8 and 2.6.18. In my experience, many of them are data acquisition hubs or computing clusters. No administrator cares about security as long as they "work". Under the form "Prefix", Gentoo is se