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From: "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:38:32
Message-Id: 4AAB84BC.5070804@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future by Sebastian Pipping
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4 Sebastian Pipping wrote:
5 > Hello there!
6 >
7 >
8 > Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a
9 > table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is
10 > per package. I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the first places
11 > people go to get a feeling for a Distro they heard about, besides
12 > Wikpedia and ${distro}.org.
13 >
14 > The freshness of these 200 packages have influence on how people
15 > perceive Gentoo on DistroWatch. While the tree as a whole is what we
16 > should keep as up to date as possible keeping these 200 packages (list
17 > further down) up to date can therefore be of particular importance.
18 >
19 > From a quick look at the table these packages seem to need extra care in
20 > Gentoo:
21 >
22 > cups (1.4.0) 1.3.11 <-- latest in Gentoo unstable/testing
23 > koffice (2.0.2) 1.6.3
24
25 There has been koffice-meta-2.0.2 for a while.
26
27 > mysql (5.1.38) 5.0.84
28 > perl (5.10.1) 5.8.8
29 > php (5.3.0) 5.2.10
30 > samba (3.4.1) 3.3.7
31
32 Marijn
33
34 - --
35 If you cannot read my mind, then listen to what I say.
36
37 Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML
38 <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-{lisp,ml} on FreeNode
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