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 4.54) id 1FbsHv-0000xj-K5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 May 2006 04:51:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k454nLG8020201; Fri, 5 May 2006 04:49:21 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k454ZqT3017972 for ; Fri, 5 May 2006 04:35:53 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id x31so727433pye for ; Thu, 04 May 2006 21:35:52 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=b3IRGz32YFv9nc39XnLNHppeKHSxqfouGY3k6mscXUpQUa/cqR7tw5L/owFdbMLbHWs9SmDEalbzHIWvg3Q2pxcbXZHam9ji8/jC3CfwQWeW1dvgYZ4sHBupjhhFiCrsuMHoOlc9x3xxkKr97CAvoU6I2qrQmDbBp6YsKx/TaOw= Received: by 10.35.8.1 with SMTP id l1mr153916pyi; Thu, 04 May 2006 21:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? ( [64.180.41.36]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id t5sm30235pyc.2006.05.04.21.35.51; Thu, 04 May 2006 21:35:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <445AD620.6090706@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 21:35:44 -0700 From: Ryan Tandy User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow? References: <7797aa370604300524i6b8616ebr947b762fec45f92a@mail.gmail.com> <200605032103.02821.lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> <20060505002719.GC8821@waltdnes.org> <200605042118.37222.lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200605042118.37222.lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 49214495-9042-44f0-9794-53c1181acd33 X-Archives-Hash: 38f132f98464e202de17a0e4ad69044b lordsauronthegreat@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:27 pm, Walter Dnes wrote: > >> Gentoo ~x86 (or ~whatever) is roughly equivalant to a mix of Debian >> "Testing" and "Unstable". A package may be ~ simply because it hasn't >> been tested enough yet to certify as stable. Or it may be horribly >> broken. Or somewhere in between. If you were comfortable running >> Debian unstable, you'll be comfortable running Gentoo ~x86. >> Actually, this isn't quite true. The difference between arch and ~arch is strictly a Gentoo difference - packages aren't shifted from package.mask to ~arch until they're considered stable by upstream. ~arch is the Gentoo testing branch: where the ebuild is refined and where the code is patched if it breaks due to crazy C(XX)FLAGS, USE, etc. Packages where the *code* (as opposed to the *ebuild*) is still considered unstable and which may actually break things badly are left in package.mask. HTH. Ryan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list