Re: [gentoo-dev] stable and unstable branches.

[Christian Bartl <psy-sec@gmx.at>]

I don't think that it would be such a good idea.
I can only speak for myself: As I love Gentoo, but don't have the time to test
known unstable software I'm sure I would be the first user who never touches
the unstable branch. I think Gentoo would get the same problems like GNU/Linux
or Debian: Everyone waits for it getting officially stable and testing is has
to be done by a few freaks.
Whoever needs a stable Gentoo now only has to read the mailing-lists an knows
about common problems.
So you great developers: if you want to get you ports tested by many people
don't tell the community (and me :-) that it isn't stable.

best regards
Christian

At 22:06 23.07.2002 +0200, you wrote:
>I think it should really be a very good idea to create two different 
>branches of the gentoo distribution. A stable and a unstalbe (or testing) 
>one. This becouse i usually find that some e-build simpy does not compile. 
>I know that it is a relly difficult task to get all the e-build working 
>right, but i also think that some people (like me) should prefer to work 
>with a little outdated packages that have been tested for some time, 
>instead of having to work with cutting edge packages that doesn't compile. 
>Don't get me wrong. I belive that gentoo is the best linux distro i have 
>ever seen, but this should really be an important way to go.
>It also should be really easy to implement thanks to the possibility to 
>select different profiles.
>So let me know what you think about this.
>Thanks
>
>Stefano Peluchetti
>
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