I guess one answer would be whenever the developer can get to it <G>. Nmap may have released a version but the Gentoo developer(s) who work on that have to make an ebuild, check it enough to make sure it's ~arch and then release it. Once that's done it's there for you.
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 17:06, you wrote: > Out of curiousity, how often does it get updated? I am seeing that at least > one of the programs I want to emerge is behind the actual site. > > The specific one is nmap and gentoo.org reports it at 3.45 and its homepage > saus 3.48. > > Jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list