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In article <20030815095406.GA17581%chutz@×××.net>, Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> On 15/08/2003 at 11:44:21(+0200), Camille Huot used 1.0K just to say: |
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> > we can just rename "release" to something like "snapshot" to show that this |
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> > only is Gentoo at a certain time. ie: "gentoo snap-20030801" |
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> I associate the word "snapshots" with something incomplete. That's because the |
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> word is mostly used by projects that offer cvs snapshots. I agree that it is |
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> the most correct name, even though it may not be the most descriptive one. |
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How about "milestone"? It doesn't abbreviate very well, though: |
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"gentoo mile-1.4" or "gentoo stone-1.4" or (perish the thought) |
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"gentoo MS-1.4" :-) |
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One thing I would note, however, is that reinstalling gentoo from |
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scratch is a good way to uninstall all those packages that used |
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to be needed but aren't anymore (old package dependencies) and it |
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also makes sure that you are using the latest version of the |
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ebuilds. |
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As a ~x86 person, I find that most of the ebuilds used to install a |
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package are (sometimes non-trivially) different from the "latest" ones |
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under /usr/portage. (And, no, I'm not talking about different ebuild |
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versions - I'm talking about the ebuilds with exactly the same names.) |
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phil |
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change "spams" to "phil" for email |
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