From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EXGd0-0000pJ-Nc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Nov 2005 11:18:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jA2BH8l9001943; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:17:08 GMT Received: from callisto.cs.kun.nl (callisto.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.75]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jA2BFCOR027866 for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 11:15:12 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by callisto.cs.kun.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A24592E800B for ; Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:15:29 +0100 (CET) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting Important Updates To Users Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 12:15:19 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.92 References: <200510301642.39469.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <20051101032140.761fbcef@snowdrop.home> <1130855349.26789.168.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> In-Reply-To: <1130855349.26789.168.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2253561.0RP8SMQ1b5"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200511021215.28933.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 15a5a761-9df6-4b04-b1b0-cb849ee7ed73 X-Archives-Hash: cd6fee1c1369afc51c4cf5b287208c36 --nextPart2253561.0RP8SMQ1b5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 01 November 2005 15:29, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 03:21 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:11:37 +0900 pclouds wrote: > > | Just curious how other distros deliver important news to their > > | users? > > > > By sticking out a new "everything is incompatible" release once or > > twice a year. > > Yeah, there's that, too. > > Want a new version of openldap that doesn't upgrade cleanly? Add it to > the next release. Wanting to switch from Apache 1.x to Apache 2.x?=20 > Add it to the next release. > > Being source-based and dynamic makes this somewhat harder on us than on > others. Besides the fact that we like to offer our users the choices that would=20 mean different releases for such distro's. Our users are able to do it=20 just with our repos and sometimes even do both. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart2253561.0RP8SMQ1b5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDaJ/QbKx5DBjWFdsRAp5ZAKDO82jwwWQ2l5e9GO3r0NzxgzXyLwCeM3IG QEPc9U+idbRfOcuvaAM8YSQ= =pVCI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2253561.0RP8SMQ1b5-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list