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 4.43) id 1E4Qs3-00061i-CE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:22:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7EMJtY7022471; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:19:55 GMT Received: from smtp110.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp110.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.229.95]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7EMCfUY005369 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 22:12:41 GMT Received: (qmail 10057 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2005 22:13:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.100?) (menola@sbcglobal.net@68.79.205.144 with plain) by smtp110.sbc.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 14 Aug 2005 22:13:04 -0000 From: Joe Menola To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:13:14 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> <42FFA5AF.3070904@gmail.com> <20050815093712.EFBD.NICK@rout.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <20050815093712.EFBD.NICK@rout.co.nz> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200508141713.14929.menola@sbcglobal.net> X-Archives-Salt: 9601ca9f-3ae9-497e-b884-f0982763c19f X-Archives-Hash: 2e35ff2c6c6aacb0a8fca3efe7056197 On Sunday August 14 2005 4:38 pm, Nick Rout wrote: > Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through > and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does > not constitute a release of a recent version IMHO. Can you name any version of Linux where version upgrades go directly into stable? It's all about choice...the "latest n greatest" or "tried n true". And that's how it is in any flavor of Linux I've tried, LFS included. -jm -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list