From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev-return-5670-arch-gentoo-dev=gentoo.org@gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 116 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Aug 2003 17:00:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31782 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 17:00:26 -0000 Message-ID: <003801c3634e$b8475f70$1401a8c0@punx> From: "matt c" <matt@legalizefreedom.org> To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> References: <1060890969.4386.34.camel@localhost> <20030814225835.74ee794b.spider@gentoo.org> <20030814222026.GA16720@force.stwing.upenn.edu> <005801c36311$d18fec50$9865fea9@herakles> <20030815131141.GD24578@enki.datanode.net> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:00:24 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 final against rc's X-Archives-Salt: 5ae8ce8f-e2b8-4ef0-a3d7-fddb195077ed X-Archives-Hash: 0f4630d37c51e9bbde340343878e9dee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Cummings" <mcummings@gentoo.org> Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 6:11 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 final against rc's > Another 2 cents (can we buy a cup of coffee yet?) - > > What about "milestone" instead? I think this will still cause confusion among the users. Calling Gentoo anything other than Gentoo (even a milestone or a snapshot) is still giving it a version number. A version number implies that there is something to be updated. Sure, the baselayout changes, as does gcc and xfree, etc. But this is a constantly changing thing - HIGHLY dependant upon your ~arch or lack thereof, and how often you update packages. Users will still think they need to "reinstall" or "upgrade" something. I think that is the strength of Gentoo - no two installations will ever be even close to the same. How can one put any sort of number on this? By versioning the stages, we remove any doubt about what people have - one could say "I installed with Gentoo Stage1-1.4 and I now have a 'Gentoo System'." How can one put a version number on my system (which is completely and utterly different than almost any one elses?) The only thing my installation has in common with anyone elses is that I installed from the same stage and stage version as others did. Matt -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list