From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31641 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Aug 2003 17:47:06 -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 16424 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 17:47:06 -0000 From: "Todd Berman" To: "'matt c'" , "'gentoo-dev ML'" Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 13:47:05 -0400 Message-ID: <005c01c36355$3dc1d8f0$8500a8c0@PROTON> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <00a801c36354$3ccce710$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: 3b6d4e0d-a610-454b-b464-79abf826f9b9 X-Archives-Hash: d0de2031dcc68ab1b2af9d61aac9716b >> Not exactly, you are missing a very important thing your installation >> had in common with a lot of other peoples. >> >> The Portage Tree. >> Just something to think about :) >I think you're missing something though -=A0 my system (and your = system) also >have gcc and python and all the neat gnu utilities like awk, and grep, and >bash, etc. These are all *different versions* depending on when you >last --updated them. The portage tree is also *VERY* different based on when >you last ran emerge sync - it changes hourly. My portage tree is different >than someone who syncd this AM (as I have not done so for about two weeks, >my ram blew up! waiting on RMA.:-(=A0 ) The absolute lowest common denominator >that anyone has is the product they installed from - which are the various >stages.. Its not so much that I'm missing that, and more that I am attempting to introduce a different concept of what might quantify a Gentoo 'Release'. If the 'Release' was based on a snapshot of the Portage Tree (with security fixes backported of course, most likely major bug fixes as well), then there would be something uniform and standard to release against. --Todd =A0 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list