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

["Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@gentoo.org>]

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Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
> From a quick look at the table these packages seem to need extra care in
> Gentoo:
> 
>   cups (1.4.0)     1.3.11  <-- latest in Gentoo unstable/testing
>   koffice (2.0.2)  1.6.3

There has been koffice-meta-2.0.2 for a while.

>   mysql (5.1.38)   5.0.84
>   perl (5.10.1)    5.8.8
>   php (5.3.0)      5.2.10
>   samba (3.4.1)    3.3.7

Marijn

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