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 1E4QIG-0001SL-E0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:45:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7ELi9v8021019; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:44:09 GMT Received: from www.rout.co.nz (203-79-82-53.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7ELc6YO020722 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:38:07 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (nick.rout.co.nz [192.168.1.2]) by www.rout.co.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5C6128997 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:37:11 +1200 (NZST) Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200 From: Nick Rout To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? In-Reply-To: <42FFA5AF.3070904@gmail.com> References: <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> <42FFA5AF.3070904@gmail.com> Message-Id: <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="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.21.04 [en] X-Archives-Salt: 4ed28f8c-6fe0-4687-8e60-e5b1c564641e X-Archives-Hash: 65ceff7cb8cd484356d298ba9919fe75 On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:12:31 -0700 Zac Medico wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what packages specifically? Do you know how to unmask unstable packages (marked M or M~ at packages.gentoo.org)? 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. > > Zac -- Nick Rout -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list