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On Wednesday 03 May 2006 23:02, lordsauronthegreat@×××××.com wrote |
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about 'Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?': |
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> I've asked on multiple occassions for a comparison to a Debian paradigm. |
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> My first distro was Debian. So a comparison to Debian would do me a |
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> world of good. |
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ARCH ~= STABLE |
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but more volatile -- there's no real release version, packages are |
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maintained separately unless they are packaged together upstream or depend |
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on one another so you'll still get regular updates, but the packages have |
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been though some amount of testing by the devs and those running: |
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~ARCH ~= TESTING |
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though there's less testing, packages don't have to survive being masked |
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for any period of time so you will occasionally get an package that would |
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only be suited for "Sid". It's still exceedingly rare for these packages |
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to screw your system, but it is possible especially if you don't read the |
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e(info|notice|warn)s that are output during the install or become lax in |
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your config file updating. Anything truly experimental will be masked |
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while the devs (and brave users) test internally. |
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If you do run ~arch and can spend some time reporting you successes and |
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failures, consider becoming an arch tester, assuming your arch needs more. |
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package.mask'd, profile masked, or missing keyword ~= SID (or worse) |
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These packages are either experimental with changes that are likely to |
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break the system, or have been known to break someones system, possibly |
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including data loss. Some development teams *cough*KDE*cough* are quite |
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flexible with the "experimental" label -- I had kde 3.5 installed with few |
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to no problems for (what seemed like) months before they were unmasked. |
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Of course, ebuilds in the forums and bugzilla (and anywhere else other than |
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the standard portage tree) are like foreign repositories. Gentoo devs |
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(and most of the people on the mailing lists) can't and won't provide |
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support for those packages or problems that may/might be caused by them. |
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-- |
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"If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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