Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

[Rumen Yotov <rumen_yotov@dir.bg>]

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Hi,
Paul Hoy wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 13:11 +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
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>>On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:58:54 -0400
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>>>Coincidently, I received a bunch of Fedora 3 & 4 email
>>>updates earlier today, which shows that Gentoo is behind 23 out of 24 of
>>>the updates, some of them quite significantly. Most of them are
>>>KDE-related files,
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>>That confirms my thoughts (which i posted yesterday).
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>>So can you clarify, is that 23/24 packages are behind on x86 or on ~x86?
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>>i.e. would an ~x86 gentoo be ahead or behind fedora?
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Here also comes the question of "how far behind " as if it's a day or
even a week that's nothing IMHO :p

>My original email was 23/24 packages for x86. However, after reading
>your email, I compared the first 10 kde updates with ~x86 releases. It
>came out that Fedora was ahead 50 percent of the time or both distros
>shared the same release versions. In case I'm doing something
>incorrectly, you can also view the updates at
>http://fedoraproject.org/infofeed/
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>Of course, this new comparison is between testing releases and so-called
>stable Fedora releases. There is a Fedora extras/unstable list (Fedora
>Core 4 Testing Updates) for that, but I don't receive that one. It also
>should be noted that the updates I listed happen to be mostly for Fedora
>3, not Fedora 4. I compared some Fedora 4 releases the other day and
>shared them with this list and Fedora was ahead 90 percent of the time
>(out of about 10 recent release comparisons).
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>Finally, after doing a ~x86 compare, I noticed that fedora-announce-list
>is slow to announce updates as most of the actual updates took place
>around the beginning of August by Redhat people. Not sure why that is.
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>Paul
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Another thing "Fedora" is still closely related with RedHat (a child
of), so being a paid Distro they have more resources/people etc.
Gentoo is made/supported by non-paid devs so there must be a difference
after all.
Still another thought - see Ubuntu's fast rise, made by having mostly
Debian unstable/testing packages with some customizations. IMO newest
not is always the best (depends on the perspective of course).
When running a ~x86 for some 6-7 months sometimes (not very often)
bumped on a Bug, which only hours at most a day/two afterwards was
solved, so being "on front line" requires much more time/resources then
"a little behind".
Just my thoughts.
Rumen

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>>Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>
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