From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30911 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Aug 2003 10:06:17 -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 16756 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2003 10:06:13 -0000 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org From: Phil Richards References: <1060890969.4386.34.camel@localhost> <20030814225835.74ee794b.spider@gentoo.org> <20030814222026.GA16720@force.stwing.upenn.edu> <005801c36311$d18fec50$9865fea9@herakles> <005801c36311$d18fec50$9865fea9@herakles> <20030815095406.GA17581%chutz@gg3.net> In-Reply-To: <20030815095406.GA17581%chutz@gg3.net> Organization: Derived Software Ltd Reply-To: spams@derived-software.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 10:06:11 -0000 Message-Id: <20030815100611.E21D18C021@derisoft.derived-software.demon.co.uk> Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:06:11 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo 1.4 final against rc's X-Archives-Salt: 1151b289-2214-4702-b2b5-ba06fe2a10ac X-Archives-Hash: b5137999f7b24e888ca164c1cce1fe1f In article <20030815095406.GA17581%chutz@gg3.net>, Georgi Georgiev wrote: > On 15/08/2003 at 11:44:21(+0200), Camille Huot used 1.0K just to say: > > we can just rename "release" to something like "snapshot" to show that this > > only is Gentoo at a certain time. ie: "gentoo snap-20030801" > I associate the word "snapshots" with something incomplete. That's because the > word is mostly used by projects that offer cvs snapshots. I agree that it is > the most correct name, even though it may not be the most descriptive one. How about "milestone"? It doesn't abbreviate very well, though: "gentoo mile-1.4" or "gentoo stone-1.4" or (perish the thought) "gentoo MS-1.4" :-) One thing I would note, however, is that reinstalling gentoo from scratch is a good way to uninstall all those packages that used to be needed but aren't anymore (old package dependencies) and it also makes sure that you are using the latest version of the ebuilds. As a ~x86 person, I find that most of the ebuilds used to install a package are (sometimes non-trivially) different from the "latest" ones under /usr/portage. (And, no, I'm not talking about different ebuild versions - I'm talking about the ebuilds with exactly the same names.) phil -- change "spams" to "phil" for email -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list