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On Tuesday 01 November 2005 15:29, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 03:21 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:11:37 +0900 pclouds <pclouds@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > | Just curious how other distros deliver important news to their |
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> > | users? |
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> > By sticking out a new "everything is incompatible" release once or |
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> > twice a year. |
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> Yeah, there's that, too. |
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> Want a new version of openldap that doesn't upgrade cleanly? Add it to |
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> the next release. Wanting to switch from Apache 1.x to Apache 2.x? |
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> Add it to the next release. |
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> |
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> Being source-based and dynamic makes this somewhat harder on us than on |
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> others. |
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Besides the fact that we like to offer our users the choices that would |
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mean different releases for such distro's. Our users are able to do it |
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just with our repos and sometimes even do both. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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