From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27771 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Aug 2003 09:44:30 -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 30335 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 09:44:29 -0000 Message-ID: <005801c36311$d18fec50$9865fea9@herakles> From: "Camille Huot" To: "Owen Gunden" Cc: References: <1060890969.4386.34.camel@localhost> <20030814225835.74ee794b.spider@gentoo.org> <20030814222026.GA16720@force.stwing.upenn.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:44:21 +0200 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 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 final against rc's X-Archives-Salt: 7673350d-9eb1-433f-a3db-3f43d56a34f4 X-Archives-Hash: 9ca63dcff9c1b66167b09b304c98bf42 we can just rename "release" to something like "snapshot" to show that this only is Gentoo at a certain time. ie: "gentoo snap-20030801" my 2 cents ----- Original Message ----- From: "Owen Gunden" To: Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 12:20 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 final against rc's > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:58:35PM +0200, Spider wrote: > > None, there wouldn't be any difference at all in your system. 1.4 is > > the package release and the livecd's, not the resulting systems. > > This kind of question comes up all the time. I often wonder if it's not a > waste of effort to try and force gentoo into a notion of "releases", when > it's so unnatural to do so. > > It would be cool to come up with some other, more gentoo-ish way of > expressing progress in the distribution. > > Ideas anyone? Or am I being a total kook? > > Owen > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list