From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6431 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Aug 2003 03:06:10 -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 7101 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 03:06:10 -0000 From: Zack Gilburd Organization: Gentoo To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 20:06:08 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1060890969.4386.34.camel@localhost> <20030814225835.74ee794b.spider@gentoo.org> <20030814222026.GA16720@force.stwing.upenn.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030814222026.GA16720@force.stwing.upenn.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_g4EP/Hup4fM5iPM"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200308142006.08912.klasikahl@gentoo.org> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at cerebellum.tehunlose.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 final against rc's X-Archives-Salt: f38cdb98-93d8-48a6-b544-7653eb70397c X-Archives-Hash: d002d45b75e65f729073d6bdd781683a --Boundary-02=_g4EP/Hup4fM5iPM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 14 August 2003 03:20 pm, Owen Gunden wrote: > On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 10:58:35PM +0200, Spider wrote: > > None, there wouldn't be any difference at all in your system. 1.4 is > > the package release and the livecd's, not the resulting systems. > > This kind of question comes up all the time. I often wonder if it's not a > waste of effort to try and force gentoo into a notion of "releases", when > it's so unnatural to do so. > > It would be cool to come up with some other, more gentoo-ish way of > expressing progress in the distribution. > > Ideas anyone? Or am I being a total kook? > > Owen This notion has been expressed over and over again -- and it's a very good= =20 one. I, too, think that Gentoo should move away from the concept of=20 definitive releases. However, it would be very hard to distinguish landmar= k=20 releases from eachother without some sort of versioning system. Also,=20 sometimes something very major happens in Linux that requires the separatio= n=20 of landmark releases for the sake of system sanity (think gcc 2.x.x -> gcc= =20 3.x.x). I really have no ideas on how else it should be done, but it does need a=20 change. Some users feel obligated to reinstall, and do so needlessly. =2D-=20 Zack Gilburd http://tehunlose.com GnuPG Key ID: A79A45668240AB6C --Boundary-02=_g4EP/Hup4fM5iPM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/PE4gsM/B2K6aCgwRAoSCAKDIbby8xdfFQzFhYxISPaTA+gpo8QCgwrBD 5wUnxWDo+lSV4sW8y1lqLi8= =cSzD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_g4EP/Hup4fM5iPM--