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On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:02:44 +0200, Sebastian Pipping |
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<webmaster@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hello there! |
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> Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a |
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> table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is |
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> per package. I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the first places |
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> people go to get a feeling for a Distro they heard about, besides |
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> Wikpedia and ${distro}.org. |
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Seriously, I doubt that the average Gentoo user comes from Distrowatch. |
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Gentoo is born from a necessity which is very different from the usual |
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binary distro. Gentoo has never been about fame or marketing. |
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> The freshness of these 200 packages have influence on how people |
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> perceive Gentoo on DistroWatch. While the tree as a whole is what we |
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> should keep as up to date as possible keeping these 200 packages (list |
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> further down) up to date can therefore be of particular importance. |
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> From a quick look at the table these packages seem to need extra care in |
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> Gentoo: |
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> cups (1.4.0) 1.3.11 <-- latest in Gentoo unstable/testing |
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> koffice (2.0.2) 1.6.3 |
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> mysql (5.1.38) 5.0.84 |
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> perl (5.10.1) 5.8.8 |
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> php (5.3.0) 5.2.10 |
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> samba (3.4.1) 3.3.7 |
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> Packages not found in Gentoo that DistroWatch monitors across discros |
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are: |
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> apt |
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> synaptic |
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> .. Debian stuff, that Gentoo does not have packaged |
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> apache |
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> mod_ssl |
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> .. Apache 1.x seems gone from Gentoo (I suppose security) |
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> openjdk |
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> .. Not packaged in Gentoo, no idea why |
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> checkinstall |
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> Miro |
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> .. Not in official tree (yet?), available through an Overlay |
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> xmms |
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> .. Removed for security reasons, available through an Overlay |
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> Maybe we should move Miro to the main tree? |
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Most Gentoo users will have no problem to use overlays as they need |
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them. If we had more developers we could as maintain more packages, |
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as simple as that. |
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Besides that, if you want some new version, you are free to use |
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bugs.gentoo.org to submit a bug, version bump, or whatever. |
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Jesús Guerrero |
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