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You would be amazed at how frustrated gentoo users make devs. Plus |
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going from distribution to distribution not everything works 100% the |
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same exact way. |
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On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:35 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: |
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> On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:29:25 +0200 |
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> Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> |
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> > Thiago Lüttig wrote: |
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> > > Hi folks ! |
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> > > I upgrade my gentoo every day, and when I try to upgrade the kde, the |
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> > > portage always display the last version of kde as 3.4.1. But newer |
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> > > versions of kde has been launched (3.4.3). What´s the reason of this |
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> > > late version still remains in the portage list ?? |
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> > > |
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> > |
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> > 3.4.1 is the latest version marked as stable. See portage documentation |
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> > about using ~arch marked packages. 3.4.3 will be marked stable soon. |
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> > Watch http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112842 for progress. |
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> > |
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> |
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> I think the OP's point is that although the latest kde that is marked |
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> "stable' by gentoo is 3.4.1, the kde group in fact have released (and |
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> therefore consider stable) version 3.4.3. |
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> |
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> And the reason for that is that it takes some time for the gentoo build |
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> system for kde to be considered stable. |
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> |
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> In other words after kde.org (or any other software writer) releases a |
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> new version, it takes some time for the gentoo devs to make sure it is |
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> working ok before they release it on the masses of gentoo users who rely |
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> on the devs to keep their systems stable. |
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> And a bloody good thing too! |
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> |
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> > Regards, |
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> > Petteri |
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> > |
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> Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz> |
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