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On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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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 |
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>>> 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 |
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>> through |
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>> and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it |
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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 |
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> version" |
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> to be constituted from? |
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I don't really understand your question. The most recent version to |
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me coincides to a release date closest to whatever today is. |
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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 don't agree with you. There are many examples where a file that has |
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been released upstream has not found its way into Portage. I've |
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provided examples elsewhere in this thread. You can also compare with |
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the Fedora feedlist. |
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> I'll grant you that it's sometimes a little bumpy... but then you |
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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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I agree. I don't like like Slackware's package management either. |
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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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Perhaps you've pointed out the difference in perspectives and |
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experience. I've run into a few problems where it has taken me longer |
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than a merely few mintues to resolve a problem. |
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I'm actually not "on about" anything. I'm interested in the |
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differrences/similarities between LFC and Gentoo, which I stated in |
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my original email. |
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> What would be different in the Gentoo you envision? |
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Well, that's actually the question I'm asking. |
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> Holly |
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