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On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 07:04, Todd Wright wrote: |
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> > > > And to the person (Andrew I think) who quoted the following |
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> > from the gentoo site as a reason for not having release branches... |
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> > > > |
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> > > > "*Portage allows you to set up Gentoo Linux the way you like it*..." |
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> > > > |
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> > > > It doesnt. Just when I get it how I like it, it changes. |
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> > "IT changes"?? I'm at a loss here. You mean that YOU keep telling it |
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> > to change? <wink> I think that you missed Daniel Robbins point: |
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> Perhaps this will work itself out all by itself. |
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> When Gentoo 1.2 is released and the make.profile is changed to point at the default-1.2 profile |
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> the bleeding edgers can use that while the more conservative keep their link to 1.0 |
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> Thinking about it, this is probably the ultimate solution, |
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> its just not apparent right now since Gentoo is so young, and the only |
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> available option is to use the 1.0 profile. When there is a choice, |
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> the current version profile will be bleeding edge, while the previous |
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> version will only be updated with major fixes, and will become the |
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> "stable" release. |
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> There. I've just convinced myself. This is a temporary problem that solves itself as Gentoo matures. |
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You've convinced me too. |
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I think that some of the concerns and proposals reflect a belief that |
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Gentoo keeps changing and therefore can not survive. That has been |
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Microsoft's argument against Linux itself. My argument is that by |
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extending our control loop back further in the process, all the way back |
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to the source codes, we have created an inherently stable system (there |
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will be perturbations but we will always recover). The alternative |
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being proposed is like the formalizations of the Debian release |
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procedure, and notice that Debian is having a hard time getting a stable |
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release of Woody (and that Woody still uses the 2.2 kernel by default). |