David Leverton wrote:
On Thursday 19 June 2008 01:23:33 Chris Gianelloni wrote:
Considering that the "most recent official release" is 2008.0_beta2, I
don't see where you have a point, at all.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/#doc_chap5
"The latest release of Gentoo Linux is:
"Gentoo Linux 2007.0 for Alpha, AMD64, HPPA, IA64, MIPS, PPC, S390, SH, SPARC,
and x86 architectures. "
2007.0 is also the first version listed at
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml
Good point, doc team please update those places.
The point is to avoid breaking Portage versions that users might reasonably be
using, even if only briefly. Do you really expect /all/ users doing a new
installation to choose the scary beta instead of the nice safe release?
What about those who do not update since 1.0? how could they survive the
havoc?
Well I do have my opinion about this:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero/glep/migrationpath.rst
IFF we would like to be _that_ helpful for such minority of users.
Otherwise isn't that hard update portage in safe mode anyway.
Trying to make HUGE MONSTERS of little corner case is the favorite sport
of Ciaranm and crew, be it a "beta" tag, an obscure feature some
developers may like for tracking live sources (and the user should not
use), possible fut{ure,ile} changes in the ebuild format.
lu - putting in perspective
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