Nick Rout schreef: > On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 > Zac Medico wrote: > > >>Hi Paul, >> >>Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages >>specifically? Do > > you know how to unmask unstable packages (marked M or M~ at > packages.gentoo.org)? > > Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through > and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does > not constitute a release of a recent version IMHO. > OK, I'll bite. What then do you consider "a release of a recent version" to be constituted from?
If it's been released upstream, and it's in Portage a couple of hours later, so I can install it, I don't know what more you could want.... what, you want a Mandrake- (or worse, still, Debian) -style wait of months before you can use the upstream version? I'll grant you that it's sometimes a little bumpy... but then you might as well be running Slack or something (not that there's anything wrong with Slackware except the appalling package management). But since I have yet to find a problem I couldn't solve in a few minutes-- and if I couldn't, it was clearly a dev issue/b.g.o issue, where I could generally count on it to be solved within hours, if not prior to my discovery-- I really can't quite see what you're on about. What would be different in the Gentoo you envision? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
