RE: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 final against rc's

["Todd Berman" <tberman@gentoo.org>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: matt c [mailto:matt@legalizefreedom.org]
> Sent: August 15, 2003 1:00 PM
> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 final against rc's
> 
> ----- 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.

Not exactly, you are missing a very important thing your installation
had in common with a lot of other peoples.

The Portage Tree.


> Matt
> 
> 
> 
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Just something to think about :)

-Todd



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