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On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 00:18, Kurt Lieber wrote: |
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> That particular combination works. I know it works. It has worked for |
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> months. However, if I upgrade either libxslt to 1.0.33 or libxml2 to 2.5.8, |
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> Weird Stuff starts happening and my life quickly becomes unpleasant. ...In my mind, that |
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> defeats the purpose of a stable/frozen tree. |
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That's a VERY fair argument Kurt, except I would temper it with this: |
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What "works" for you doesn't necessarily work for me. |
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[I presume] you arrived at that combination but bumping one or another |
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or the third until you found a combination that was stable for your |
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situation. Great! |
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But that may not necessarily be stable for someone else, and the trouble |
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comes when we consider this: who decides what is stable and what isn't? |
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It's effectively the same manpower problem as backporting software. |
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Debian does both these tasks. To their credit, they're very good at it, |
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but as we know, the end result doesn't always meet our needs. |
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I'm not against Gentoo going down that road, I'm just not sure you'll |
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get value for the huge effort that would need to be invested. |
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AfC |
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Andrew Frederick Cowie |
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