From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18041 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Aug 2003 17:27:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 21898 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 17:27:31 -0000 From: "Todd Berman" To: "'matt c'" , Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:27:30 -0400 Message-ID: <005401c36352$81671370$8500a8c0@PROTON> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <003801c3634e$b8475f70$1401a8c0@punx> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 final against rc's X-Archives-Salt: 6c459709-f8ef-4eac-8176-16d7958dcc13 X-Archives-Hash: 8149619cb2bc39d8ec00b06a4da39f12 > -----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" > 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 > > > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list Just something to think about :) -Todd -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list