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On 31 Dec 2008, at 23:51, Michael P. Soulier wrote: |
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> Having just been bitten by some of my hardware being abandoned with |
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> the latest |
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> version of a software package I am left to question the entire |
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> philosophy in |
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> gentoo of always running bleeding edge. Not touching a system that's |
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> working |
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> is becoming far more tempting, and I'm curious as to what others |
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> here have to |
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> say about that. |
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I think what you should be asking is why upstream have stopped |
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supporting your hardware. Hopefully they'll be able to give a good |
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reason for doing so. |
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IMO the Gentoo philosophy is not to run "bleeding edge", but just to |
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install from upstream, keeping it as "pure" and unchanged as possible. |
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Stroller. |
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