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On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:29, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Mark Rudholm wrote: |
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> > Is it just me, or is Portage getting out of date in a lot of areas. |
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> > I keep finding that it is months out of date on software that I use. |
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> > For example, OpenVPN's latest stable release, v1.6.0 came out on May 9, |
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> > yet portage is still at 1.5.0-r1 (masked or not). The 2.0_beta releases are |
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> > nowhere to be found. KDE 3.3 is also not masked. Postfix 2.1 took a while |
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> > to show up in Portage... |
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> > |
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> > I also noticed that the GWN wasn't posted to the Gentoo website last week (or |
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> > this). |
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> > |
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> > Should I be concerned? |
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> Nope, not at all. Just remember that all of the Gentoo developers are |
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> volunteers. They work on this stuff in their spare time. If you want a newer |
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> version of a particular program in the portage tree, write an ebuild yourself |
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> and submit it via bugs.gentoo.org. |
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Judging by the number of ebuilds waiting in b.g.o, I'd say the lack of |
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developers is more of a problem than the lack of ebuilds. Debian has |
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approx 1,000 devs, and Gentoo has only 200 IIRC. |
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Cheers |
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Andrew |
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