On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 11:59, Brad Laue wrote:
> 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?

It sounds great, but I think we're battling now with a problem of us
taking up way too much space on our mirrors.  In fact, there is a thread
discussing the removal of the ISO images.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Games Team

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