From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EWxHJ-0002fS-N5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:38:22 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA1EYYqY021557; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:34:34 GMT Received: from smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (smtp.nuvox.net [64.89.70.9]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA1ETbdB017166 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 14:29:37 GMT Received: from cgianelloni.nuvox.net (216.215.202.4.nw.nuvox.net [216.215.202.4]) by smtp04.gnvlscdb.sys.nuvox.net (8.12.11/8.12.11) with SMTP id jA1EThqK029286 for ; Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:29:43 -0500 Received: by cgianelloni.nuvox.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 1 Nov 2005 09:29:09 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users From: Chris Gianelloni To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20051101032140.761fbcef@snowdrop.home> References: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <20051101032140.761fbcef@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-JB76pTxT35tcaI9H0fX0" Organization: Gentoo Linux Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:29:09 -0500 Message-Id: <1130855349.26789.168.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 X-Archives-Salt: e10b970c-3369-4cf9-8bd5-5d65450a1127 X-Archives-Hash: 4210a25cd1fd85086388a1034d0925e8 --=-JB76pTxT35tcaI9H0fX0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 03:21 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:11:37 +0900 pclouds wrote: > | Just curious how other distros deliver important news to their users? >=20 > By sticking out a new "everything is incompatible" release once or > twice a year. Yeah, there's that, too. Want a new version of openldap that doesn't upgrade cleanly? Add it to the next release. Wanting to switch from Apache 1.x to Apache 2.x? Add it to the next release. Being source-based and dynamic makes this somewhat harder on us than on others. --=20 Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux --=-JB76pTxT35tcaI9H0fX0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDZ3u1kT4lNIS36YERArReAKCUSXLZJ/fk9IA8yyWG6II6Pt3QygCeMibq Sr6Zxa3e9SusAMcjxcRBQc0= =bavq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-JB76pTxT35tcaI9H0fX0-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list