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David Leverton wrote: |
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> On Thursday 19 June 2008 01:23:33 Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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>> Considering that the "most recent official release" is 2008.0_beta2, I |
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>> don't see where you have a point, at all. |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/#doc_chap5 |
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> "The latest release of Gentoo Linux is: |
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> "Gentoo Linux 2007.0 for Alpha, AMD64, HPPA, IA64, MIPS, PPC, S390, SH, SPARC, |
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> and x86 architectures. " |
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> 2007.0 is also the first version listed at |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml |
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Good point, doc team please update those places. |
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> The point is to avoid breaking Portage versions that users might reasonably be |
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> using, even if only briefly. Do you really expect /all/ users doing a new |
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> installation to choose the scary beta instead of the nice safe release? |
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What about those who do not update since 1.0? how could they survive the |
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havoc? |
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Well I do have my opinion about this: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero/glep/migrationpath.rst |
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IFF we would like to be _that_ helpful for such minority of users. |
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Otherwise isn't that hard update portage in safe mode anyway. |
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Trying to make HUGE MONSTERS of little corner case is the favorite sport |
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of Ciaranm and crew, be it a "beta" tag, an obscure feature some |
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developers may like for tracking live sources (and the user should not |
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use), possible fut{ure,ile} changes in the ebuild format. |
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lu - putting in perspective |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo Council Member |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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