From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26218 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Sep 2003 15:55:20 -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 29539 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2003 15:55:20 -0000 From: Brad Laue Reply-To: brad@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Gentoo Linux Message-Id: <1063641562.12338.7.camel@Discovery.brad-x.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 11:59:23 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4.1 and GRP X-Archives-Salt: 3067f2f7-e8ef-45c6-9c4f-2e9ad392ad1d X-Archives-Hash: cc6e6c2a9caccae916ae636b8281fd7c 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list