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(sorry if you receive this mail twice, my subscription was not ok) |
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Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 060404 Caleb Tennis wrote: |
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>> historically we were much more bleeding edge with our stable KDE |
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>> versions, but if you've spent any significant time playing with 3.5.0 or |
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>> 3.5.1, you would agree that they are terribly less stable than 3.4.3. |
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> Not here ! I've used both (successively) every day |
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> & can't recall a single crash or noteworthy (indeed any) problem. |
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> It's true that I don't use Kmail & similar exchange-type apps |
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> & some comments suggest that is where the bulk of instability lies. |
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> The fact that KDE itself is no longer accepting bugs for 3.4.3 |
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> really does suggest there's something wrong with Gentoo's current |
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> criteria. |
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As a user I have to add my opinion here. I have been using Gentoo for some |
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years now and it was always fairly up to date. Currently KDE is really |
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behind on the current situation upstream. |
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And then I wonder why. What makes us think we can not trust the KDE devs? |
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Does compiling KDE introduce so many bugs? I mean, let's be serious, all |
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other distributions have a stable 3.5.x now. Don't they experience all |
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those horrible bugs? |
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Seriously, this is really becoming an issue. As I pointed out in a bug I |
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filed for a stable KDE (for which I apologize, I should have looked here |
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first), some people are leaving Gentoo because of this slow upgrade |
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process. |
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The classical answer from devs is "it's ready when it's ready". From a user |
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point of view this is very, very vague. Please give users a more clear |
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explanation, this creates great frustration when looking at other |
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distributions. Because it's stable there. |
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These are my 2 cents as a user. One that loves Gentoo. One that loves KDE. |
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One that's frustrated by the current situation. I am a CS so I know how |
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hard programming can be, don't get me wrong there. I do appreciate what you |
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guys do. But I can't understand why you do it this way right now. |
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Bart |
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