the non-deterministic nature is what I was getting at. I worked at a place where they'd spin up a new gentoo box for a dev with stock "emerge foo" and let ever

the non-deterministic nature is what I was getting at. I worked at a place where they'd spin up a new gentoo box for a dev with stock "emerge foo" and let everything run up. Then 3 weeks later, they'd do it again for the next dev, and they'd have many diff versions. I know they weren't "doing it right", but they were doing it the default way they learned, and it caused a lot of problems. Thanks for the info/clarification though.