From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MmWN5-0000ai-93 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:26:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B0A0E08BE; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:26:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay09.ispgateway.de (smtprelay09.ispgateway.de [80.67.29.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26296E08BE for ; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:26:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.179.21.248] (helo=[192.168.0.3]) by smtprelay09.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1MmWPf-0007jw-4t for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:29:27 +0200 Message-ID: <4AABD9D4.3030802@hartwork.org> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:26:44 +0200 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090820) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future References: <4AAAD714.1010107@hartwork.org> <200909120048.54012.bauman.aaron@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200909120048.54012.bauman.aaron@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: 874396 X-Archives-Salt: 961e2e57-32a7-45c4-8ce0-a56a645a8960 X-Archives-Hash: c7a317ce19b7c7b1ffc17a80d77d9e2e Aaron Bauman wrote: > Sebastian, > I definitely admire your point and know that through your tracking and Google > SoC project you have good visibility on this I do however have to disagree. > As much as I enjoy the open source community and admire the products they put > out I do believe Gentoo has the right approach to packaging. > My standpoint is that Gentoo always ensures stability in the fact that we > require packages to be tested prior to release in the main portage tree and > secondly the Gentoo developers always ensure security as best as they can. > These I believe are what keep the portage tree somewhat behind the latest and > greatest and as always there are overlays and options that allow users to pull > these packages down if they want. > I believe the great thing about Gentoo is the choice of whether to be cutting > edge or not. If I have missed anything please let me know. I don't think we should trade away quality. You said you disagree with me but with that said I don't see at which point. Sebastian