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060312 Marco Calviani wrote: |
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> At the root of my question there was the need to understand |
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> why kde 3.5.1 packages are still testing |
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> even if there aren't critical bugs at bugs.gentoo.org |
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My experience is that the Gentoo KDE devs are rather conservative |
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& tend to leave versions in 'testing' a bit longer than necessary. |
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I've been using 3.5.1 for about 2 weeks without any problems |
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& before that 3.5.0 from the beginning of January ditto. |
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I trust KDE not to release a version with serious bugs, |
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but otherwise do avoid 'testing' versions of critical packages, eg Portage: |
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not long ago, there was a serious bug in the 'testing' Bash 3.0 , |
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which was quickly fixed, but caused a few people real trouble. |
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While KDE is my usual desktop manager, it isn't critical to my system, |
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as I have Fluxbox installed too & could switch to that in an emergency. |
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