From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22056 invoked by uid 1002); 23 May 2003 12:23:15 -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 30204 invoked from network); 23 May 2003 12:23:14 -0000 Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 14:11:22 +0200 From: Henti Smith To: Georgi Georgiev Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20030523141122.3695cd53.bain@tcsn.co.za> In-Reply-To: <20030523121507.GA25407%chutz@gg3.net> References: <1053653430.29351.21.camel@mcvaio.liquidx.net> <200305231006.55635.pauldv@gentoo.org> <3ECE0D96.8040609@codewordt.co.uk> <20030523135232.7ddba9da.bain@tcsn.co.za> <20030523121507.GA25407%chutz@gg3.net> Organization: The Computer Smith Networks X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.11 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] common ebuild mistakes X-Archives-Salt: 4f9e8176-3b46-44c7-a3f0-4ea8a75ac2d2 X-Archives-Hash: 2f6b296a3c294a4efd189e433243e8e2 On Fri, 23 May 2003 21:15:07 +0900 Georgi Georgiev wrote: > On Fri, May 23, 2003 at 01:52:32PM +0200, Henti Smith wrote: > > I agree .... if this was that case I would still be using slackware or > > something since I can "update" the packaes I have installed when "needed" I > > use gentoo so I can get the latest mplayer a few days after it comes out etc > > etc > > > > otherwise whats the point of having gentoo and portage .. ? > > That's one thing I hear lots of people pointing as a downside of gentoo. In an > attempt to have the newest packages it happens that even the stable ones are > not stable enough. I don't mind unstable stuff ... before gentoo I compiled everything myself as well and I run my system as ~x86 and I edit packages.mask and have portage overlay for my own bumps thats not in portage yet. > I thought the idea of portage is the ability to compile the packages any way > you want, not necessarily to have the newest one a few days after it's out. There are many sides to what gentoo offers .. for me personally .. it's the fact that I can install the latest stuff to play with and I don't have to worry about dependancies ... if there is a problem .. I write my own ebuilds to do what I want and sort it out and submit it .. > Otherwize, even RedHat had pretty fresh packages in its Rawhide for the > adventurous. And not that late after the official release at all. I like to compile stuff ;P Henti -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list