From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:35:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050814233533.2ca0c7b1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050815093712.EFBD.NICK@rout.co.nz>
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On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200, 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.
They're not "unstable", they are "testing", and that only applies to the
ebuild itself, not the upstream package. If you want the latest versions,
you need to run ~arch. Any distro that puts brand new packages (with the
exception of security fixes) into its stable package tree has thrown all
concept of QA out of the window.
--
Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 30: Business ethics
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Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-06 23:40 [gentoo-user] alsaconf not setting oss emulation Nick Rout
2005-08-06 23:59 ` [gentoo-user] SOLVED " Nick Rout
2005-08-07 0:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Christoph Eckert
2005-08-07 2:21 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-14 19:42 ` [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? Paul Hoy
2005-08-14 20:12 ` Zac Medico
2005-08-14 21:38 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-14 21:51 ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-14 22:48 ` Zac Medico
2005-08-14 23:28 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-14 23:46 ` Zac Medico
2005-08-15 10:59 ` fire-eyes
2005-08-15 0:53 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-15 1:34 ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-15 1:53 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-14 22:13 ` Joe Menola
2005-08-14 23:40 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-15 8:28 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-15 9:50 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-15 10:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-15 13:35 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-14 22:35 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2005-08-15 1:08 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-15 1:48 ` Zac Medico
2005-08-15 1:55 ` Joe Menola
2005-08-15 2:22 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-15 2:20 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-15 0:43 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-14 23:42 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-15 11:02 ` Graham Murray
2005-08-15 11:32 ` Zac Medico
2005-08-14 21:05 ` Joe Menola
2005-08-14 21:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-14 21:33 ` Joe Menola
2005-08-14 22:49 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-14 21:37 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-14 21:52 ` Joe Menola
2005-08-14 22:43 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-14 23:26 ` Joe Menola
2005-08-15 1:25 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-14 21:24 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-15 0:37 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-15 0:58 ` Holly Bostick
2005-08-15 1:39 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-15 8:36 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-15 1:01 ` Zac Medico
2005-08-15 1:33 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-15 8:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-15 9:06 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-08-15 9:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-15 10:02 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-08-15 10:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2005-08-15 10:54 ` Zac Medico
2005-08-15 5:19 ` Walter Dnes
2005-08-15 6:22 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-15 20:00 ` Peter Karlsson
2005-08-16 0:58 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-16 1:11 ` Nick Rout
2005-08-16 1:56 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-16 4:16 ` kashani
2005-08-16 4:23 ` Rumen Yotov
2005-08-21 20:05 ` Jerry McBride
2005-08-14 22:06 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-08-15 0:56 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-21 22:36 ` Jerry McBride
2005-08-14 23:32 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2005-08-15 4:36 ` Barry.SCHWARTZ
2005-08-14 23:49 ` Paul Hoy
2005-08-15 8:31 ` Neil Bothwick
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