On Monday 07 February 2005 04:18, Ben Munat wrote:
> Well, it finally happened. My partner has gotten fed up with the snail's
> pace at which the latest versions of many apps become unmasked -- or even
> show up -- in portage. PHP 5, MySQL 5, Cocoon 2.1, etc., etc.

Gentoo is a community distro.  If it lacks something that you'd like to see, 
write an ebuild and submit a bug.  

Gentoo is a distro built and maintained by volunteers.  And we're *always* 
short of volunteers.  Become a Gentoo dev, and help lighten the load ;-)

PHP 5 and Cocoon 2.1 are in the Portage tree.  There is nothing preventing you 
from unmasking these packages locally, by using the /etc/portage/package.* 
files (man portage for details).

Best regards,
Stu
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