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From: Justin <justin@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.26 stable?
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:38:25
Message-Id: 4AC35F47.7060301@j-schmitz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.26 stable? by "Stefan G. Weichinger"
1 Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
2 > Without any ranting ... I feel kind of stupid waiting for GNOME 2.26
3 > going stable within the gentoo-tree while GNOME 2.28 is out now at
4 > gnome.org.
5 >
6 > Maybe I am too conservative here and could already use 2.26 for a while
7 > by unmasking lots of packages or doing *something* ...
8 >
9 > Not that I really miss something, it's just that I wonder ... and I
10 > would like to explore any new features etc ...
11 >
12 > The question:
13 >
14 > Should I wait for bug 263083 to be done?
15 >
16 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263083
17 >
18 > Or is there a "safe enough, stable enough" way to get gnome-2.26 onto my
19 > amd64-desktop without crashing my main workstation every few days?
20 >
21 > Again: I appreciate the work of all the gentoo-devs, I am far from being
22 > able to judge their work. I just ask as I assume that I am missing
23 > something maybe ...
24 >
25 > Thanks, Stefan.
26 >
27 >
28 Gnome herd is hardly working on stabilization. There are some hard
29 things to solve but they want to get it stable ASAP.
30
31
32 Btw, I am always running a ~gnome and I rarely had problems. They are
33 really doing a good job.

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