[gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4.1 and GRP

[Brad Laue <brad@gentoo.org>]

Greetings all,

A concern of mine about many Linux distributions is that in the long
haul between binary releases of a distribution, the packages included
with the release can become quite old. In Gentoo's case, if one GRP
installed their system nine months from now and emerge -u'd, they would
be faced with a considerable number of packages to update (I wouldn't be
surprised if it was all of them).

The Gentoo 1.4.1 release re-ignited my curiosity on this topic. Will
there be regular interim releases between major upgrades, or will
releases like these solely fix bugs?

If the latter, can a GRP ISO be created say, every two months? This
would only add ~500MB per architecture involved, since there wouldn't be
any need to archive the older versions of the ISO.

Realising that Gentoo is of course a source-based distribution, quickly
and easily installing the latest and greatest by using emerge -k, then
optimizing by rebuilding incrementally has surely sparked a great deal
of additional interest in the distribution.

What does everyone think?

Brad


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