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Sorry about the broken references (most likely) - darn reply-to-list not |
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working... |
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Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> - if people really want to be on the bleeding edge side they should use |
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> ~arch versions, but then they can't complain if things break from time |
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> to time as you can't have both bleeding edge and super stable at the |
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> same time. Many complaints that I've seen about Gentoo being "stale" |
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> were regarding the time it takes for a package to move from ~arch to |
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> stable. |
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Agreed - I think this is one of Gentoo's strong points, and it is one |
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shared with other distros like Debian. However, the keywords file has |
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an advantage that you can tailor which packages you want from stable and |
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which ones from testing. |
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Gentoo QA has improved greatly from the days when emerge -uD world was |
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like rolling the dice. I still exercise care with a few key packages, |
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but for the most part I don't need to worry about it. |
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I think that most users want a basically-stable system, with maybe a few |
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packages cutting-edge - those would be the ones they're interested in. |
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If I have an interest in thunderbird maybe I want the latest release |
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candidate installed so that I can mess with it. However, at the same |
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time I don't want everything breaking because I have the alpha release |
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of glibc - unless I'm a glibc hacker. Gentoo lets me have the best of |
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both worlds - no fuss with most of the system, but I can tinker with |
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anything I'd like to. And there is always accept_keywords for those who |
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want to live on the wild side. |
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We just need to better emphasize the pros/cons of all the possible |
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approaches - so that users can pick the experience they want. With a |
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few commands you can be syncing to the user-submitted side of sunrise |
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with no QA at all and be really cutting-edge. Or you can be completely |
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stable (well, maybe not quite to Debian-stable levels - we don't |
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backport patches as a general rule and stay two years between firefox |
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releases). |
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