From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pillage.dreamhost.com (pillage.dreamhost.com [66.33.213.23]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j573T3wU029800 for ; Tue, 7 Jun 2005 03:29:04 GMT Received: from redstone.retrovertigo.com (68-189-81-43.ca.charter.com [68.189.81.43]) by pillage.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DAC0149690 for ; Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:29:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Dylan Carlson To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] where goes Gentoo? Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:29:09 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20050606235550.GL9084@kaf.zko.hp.com> <1118110711.7562.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200506062029.09766.absinthe@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 118a1a88-2e8a-40b4-b851-f80e24b7b2a1 X-Archives-Hash: 8ed64fb436bac98a581f8163c314ea8e On Monday 06 June 2005 19:45, Collins Richey wrote: > 2. Enterprise users (as a general rule) are not interested in the > latest and greatest but rather in a stable, reasonably current system > that can remain in place (with guaranteed security fixes, of course) > with no "feature creep" for a few years. Even Gentoo stable is too > much of a moving target for such users. The user base (engineers > developing embedded Linux) I support is still well served by RH9 for > the most part! "Feature creep" is largely a problem upstream, not with package maintainers. And no, we're not gonna backport anything. If people really believe that backporting fixes = stable and/or secure, let them use RH. It's a belief, nothing more. Cheers, Dylan Carlson [absinthe@gentoo.org] Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list