[gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

[Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:02:44 +0200
Sebastian Pipping <webmaster@hartwork.org> wrote:

> Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a
> table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is
> per package.  I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the first places
> people go to get a feeling for a Distro they heard about, besides
> Wikpedia and ${distro}.org.
> 
> The freshness of these 200 packages have influence on how people
> perceive Gentoo on DistroWatch.  While the tree as a whole is what we
> should keep as up to date as possible keeping these 200 packages (list
> further down) up to date can therefore be of particular importance.

Personally I don't see how gaming the system helps us in any way.




Also, screw DW.

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