Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Why Is Gentoo So Far Behind?
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:46:59
Message-Id: 20090616024654.GA28136@crud.chemoelectric.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Why Is Gentoo So Far Behind? by Frank Peters
1 Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> skribis:
2 > Now I am not actually voicing a complaint. Gentoo, IMO, is still
3 > the best distribution for Linux. I am just wondering why there
4 > is such a great lag before a package version is deemed stable -- or
5 > even unstable. In my experience with maintaining my own Linux system,
6 > I never had any great issues with always installing the latest "bleeding"
7 > edge software.
8
9 Writing ebuilds that work for practically everyone is hard. Gentoo
10 has to handle a lot of cases.