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Nick Rout schreef: |
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> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 |
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> Zac Medico wrote: |
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>>Hi Paul, |
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>>Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages specifically? Do |
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> you know how to unmask unstable packages (marked M or M~ at |
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> packages.gentoo.org)? |
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> Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through |
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> and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does |
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> not constitute a release of a recent version IMHO. |
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OK, I'll bite. What then do you consider "a release of a recent version" |
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to be constituted from? |
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If it's been released upstream, and it's in Portage a couple of hours |
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later, so I can install it, I don't know what more you could want.... |
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what, you want a Mandrake- (or worse, still, Debian) -style wait of |
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months before you can use the upstream version? |
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I'll grant you that it's sometimes a little bumpy... but then you might |
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as well be running Slack or something (not that there's anything wrong |
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with Slackware except the appalling package management). |
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But since I have yet to find a problem I couldn't solve in a few |
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minutes-- and if I couldn't, it was clearly a dev issue/b.g.o issue, |
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where I could generally count on it to be solved within hours, if not |
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prior to my discovery-- I really can't quite see what you're on about. |
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What would be different in the Gentoo you envision? |
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Holly |
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