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> In a lot of cases, for example perl, Xorg, and gcc, the Gentoo |
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> distribution lags far behind the latest available releases. |
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> Even allowing the "~amd64" unstable series, this remains true. |
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> Why is this so? |
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Xorg? We have 2.6.2_pre . gcc? We have 4.4.0 . I dont know about perl :) |
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> I had first considered moving to Gentoo in the fall of 2008, |
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> but after noticing that the only version of gcc available at |
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> that time was gcc-3.x, I postponed the change. In the spring |
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> of 2009, Gentoo finally moved up to gcc-4.3.x and then I made |
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> the transition. But the update to the 4.3 series was a long time |
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> in coming. |
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We need to test them extensively. It is not just all about the ebuilds. Sure |
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we can write the ebuilds of every shiny new application and put them on |
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mirrors. But we want to test them before we release them. We dont want our |
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users to use experimental ebuilds/software without extensive testing. |
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Packaging is easy but all the background testing is hard. Our goal is not to |
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provide new ebuilds as fast as we can but to provide stable and working |
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applications. If this is not what you want then you can switch to another |
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distro that all it does is packaging o:). Finally as you can see here |
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http://cia.vc/, Gentoo is every day on the TOP10 active projects ;) |
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sunrise/Sound] |
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Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org |
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