George Prowse posted on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:53:31 +0000 as excerpted: > On 26/03/2010 17:43, Dale wrote: >> It's not faith, its reality. There will be some people that don't >> subscribe to this list that will do what is above. This IS the reason I >> subscribed to this list. I wanted to know what the devs were doing >> under the hood that would lead me to screw up my system. It's amazing >> how much fewer problems I have had since I started watching this list. >> >> Also, if python3 is marked as "stable," people will assume it is safe >> to switch to. That's what "stable" means. >> > It's Gentoo and naturally users are like magpies, they like everything > newest, highest and shiniest.
Hmm... looking closely, I think it's myself I see in that mirror! =:^) Pretty apt description, I think, tho I don't suppose it's entirely accurate for stale users or they'd find it just that. I certainly do. Take baselayout-2/openrc for instance; /how/ many years stale is baselayout-1 now? -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
