Stefan G. Weichinger schrieb:
> Without any ranting ... I feel kind of stupid waiting for GNOME 2.26
> going stable within the gentoo-tree while GNOME 2.28 is out now at
> gnome.org.
> 
> Maybe I am too conservative here and could already use 2.26 for a while
> by unmasking lots of packages or doing *something* ...
> 
> Not that I really miss something, it's just that I wonder ... and I
> would like to explore any new features etc ...
> 
> The question:
> 
> Should I wait for bug 263083 to be done?
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263083
> 
> Or is there a "safe enough, stable enough" way to get gnome-2.26 onto my
> amd64-desktop without crashing my main workstation every few days?
> 
> Again: I appreciate the work of all the gentoo-devs, I am far from being
> able to judge their work. I just ask as I assume that I am missing
> something maybe ...
> 
> Thanks, Stefan.
> 
> 
Gnome herd is hardly working on stabilization. There are some hard
things to solve but they want to get it stable ASAP.


Btw, I am always running a ~gnome and I rarely had problems. They are
really doing a good job.