Douglas Gregor wrote:
I'm not completely against the finer-grained approach, but I've seen enough problems with it in other projects to cause some concern. Have you ever maintained a Linux system using Gentoo? It's nearly impossible to duplicate (and, thus, diagnose) errors from one system to the next, because nobody has exactly the same set of components. Often, compiling a new component will break because of some minor incompatibility with another component, forcing you to roll back something. I agree completely. I've been using Gentoo for more then an year updating it regularly. Most of the time it was fine, thanks to great Gentoo team. But sometimes I had to resolve errors myself. Finally, when it failed to update completely because python stopped working I decided to install FreeBSD. Two weeks later there was another fault and I replaced my Gentoo with FreeBSD. Gentoo is too flexible. -- Alexander Nasonov