> In a lot of cases, for example perl, Xorg, and gcc, the Gentoo > distribution lags far behind the latest available releases. > Even allowing the "~amd64" unstable series, this remains true. > Why is this so? Xorg? We have 2.6.2_pre . gcc? We have 4.4.0 . I dont know about perl :) > > I had first considered moving to Gentoo in the fall of 2008, > but after noticing that the only version of gcc available at > that time was gcc-3.x, I postponed the change. In the spring > of 2009, Gentoo finally moved up to gcc-4.3.x and then I made > the transition. But the update to the 4.3 series was a long time > in coming. > We need to test them extensively. It is not just all about the ebuilds. Sure we can write the ebuilds of every shiny new application and put them on mirrors. But we want to test them before we release them. We dont want our users to use experimental ebuilds/software without extensive testing. Packaging is easy but all the background testing is hard. Our goal is not to provide new ebuilds as fast as we can but to provide stable and working applications. If this is not what you want then you can switch to another distro that all it does is packaging o:). Finally as you can see here http://cia.vc/, Gentoo is every day on the TOP10 active projects ;)
-- Markos Chandras (hwoarang) Gentoo Linux Developer [KDE/Qt/Sunrise/Sound] Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org
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