From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-dev-return-4035-arch-gentoo-dev=gentoo.org@gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 9909 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Jun 2003 12:37:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-dev-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1249 invoked from network); 25 Jun 2003 12:37:00 -0000 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:18:11 +0000 From: rob holland <robh@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <181950000.1056547091@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20030625042245.6d729118.xwred1@xwredwing.net> References: <20030624005813.GA5061@cerberus.oppresses.us> <20030624031603.6ddf9456.xwred1@xwredwing.net> <20030624171810.GA11676@cerberus.oppresses.us> <20030624162733.26377e48.xwred1@xwredwing.net> <20030625003039.GB25581@cerberus.oppresses.us> <20030624212200.29afd907.xwred1@xwredwing.net> <20030625041956.GA27580@cerberus.oppresses.us> <20030624214904.4a08cefb.xwred1@xwredwing.net> <20030625045343.GA27897@cerberus.oppresses.us> <20030624221257.50aab7c5.xwred1@xwredwing.net> <20030625051527.GA28137@cerberus.oppresses.us> <62420000.1056535645@localhost> <20030625042245.6d729118.xwred1@xwredwing.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="==========2139797794==========" Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Weekly News Letter - "Where is Gentoo Linux 1.4" X-Archives-Salt: 2afbd103-ea51-4ab9-9803-9b57ddfc797a X-Archives-Hash: 8dbf97ce6e3a968e8fea758a783ab577 --==========2139797794========== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline --On Wednesday, June 25, 2003 04:22:45 -0700 Matt Thrailkill=20 <xwred1@xwredwing.net> wrote: Firstly, this is not a flame. Please give me the benefit of the doubt in=20 that respect :) > Just a meager user comment. I run Gentoo "stable" on my desktop and > laptop, but it seems like things still change a bit too much and too > largely to where I'd feel comfortable deploying it on a server. There is no gentoo stable in the same way that Obsd has stable. Obsd stable = can pretty much be guaranteed to work and play happily. Ebuilds are marked=20 stable or unstable based on whether the _ebuild_ is known to be reliable,=20 not the package which the ebuild installs. There is no indication inside of portage as to whether a program is stable=20 or not, other than extreme cases where ebuilds are masked because the app=20 is very broken. Its not possible for us to say "this is a stable platform"=20 for a gentoo "system" can include any number of programs that we may or may = not have written ebuilds for which can affect the system. Obsd peeps know exactly what apps are installed in their base system, so=20 they can mark the stuff stable when they're fairly sure the base system=20 doesn't blow up. Also, I think you misunderstand "releases". 1.4 is a release of an install=20 CD and maybe GRP. Thats it. It makes no difference to the actual system=20 once you start running emerge sync you'll be back in the same place as=20 someone who installed with a 1.3 install CD and has been running emerge=20 sync. Rob -- robh@gentoo.org / robh:irc.freenode.net http://cvs.gentoo.org/~robh/robh@gentoo.org.asc --==========2139797794========== Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE++aET1lw5L9kbRykRAjiCAJ0Z+h72dzZ6OS+fcMNS1CLpXeAe8ACdG0VH AY7vIR+lkvOvXRIJ1C3Ltwg= =WR8I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==========2139797794==========--