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On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 12:24, cycloon wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 02:36, Sean wrote: |
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> > That's a shame ... one of the attractions I had to gentoo was it seemed to |
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> > stay fairly current. Debian is nice and all, but it's a _royal_ pain in the |
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> > rear when you want to start using some current software because of features. |
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> having a stable branch does not need to have such a conservative version |
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> management as debian has. just use the development tree and youre |
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> current as usual |
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The whole objective with this is to actually provide the users with a |
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'stable' working setup, but also be quick abot it (unlike debian's |
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completely seperate trees). Thing's generally won't live as ~arch for |
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long at all, just for initial testing phase. |
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The more users that pitch in and do testing of these packages, the |
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faster they will get upgraded to stable :) |
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Gerk |
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