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 1E2xeq-0004Wn-Bs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:58:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7AKv3tm028933; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:57:03 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.196]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7AKrRJo026654 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:53:28 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so157679nzc for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:54:10 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=ExvRBha/zEzbAsOQuvZOiWlbY7OwQi/0LggecDluIJkx76es9kbT95wIxeHKwCcDQ/CBHZf7qSvqV3zgs1ohV6pHz8TFe+nvqVb11Q3QBzgqN49x09JhysWOnYssLW4DzNeevaD/AYnbTIWwGU5R562MnwY7gIwb0HcmqqfRX4k= Received: by 10.37.2.38 with SMTP id e38mr926624nzi; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.58.18 with HTTP; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:54:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0508101354f0de0a7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 13:54:10 -0700 From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] from 2005.0 to 2005.1 In-Reply-To: <42FA6736.2080208@cfrscca.net> 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=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <1cc2dc8305081006491aa8dd07@mail.gmail.com> <42FA0E1C.6050008@planet.nl> <42FA1371.7090104@internode.on.net> <20050810160002.3758c0b1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <42FA1D4C.4030505@internode.on.net> <42FA6736.2080208@cfrscca.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j7AKrRJo026654 X-Archives-Salt: eee8c10e-bdc1-491e-a1bc-7a3656dc914b X-Archives-Hash: dcdd18d56f5e3304a8a584a459f4ce81 On 8/10/05, Craig Zeigler wrote: > >> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 00:47:13 +1000, Eugene Rosenzweig wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>> I wish there were Release Notes supplied with the announcement of > >>> the new release to satisfy curiosity of what is new/different in this > >>> release. > >>> > >> > >> > >> Gentoo doesn't really have releases, except for the installation discs, > >> so this would be meaningless. Except when a profile is deprecated, and > >> 1.4 was the last to do that, your system is whatever was in portage the > >> last time you synced and updated. > >> > >> > > From the website: > > The Gentoo Foundation is both pleased and proud to announce the much > > anticipated release of *Gentoo Linux 2005.1* (Codename: 'El Nino'). > > The iso images for the release can be found by visiting the Get > > Gentoo! page. > > > > Fooled me with the word 'release' in that sentence. Its even got a > > codename. You know something is a proper release if its got a > > codename... :) It is referring to installation iso I guess. Still, > > even though it is not a true release in, eh, truer meaning of the word > > 'release', whatever it is in Linux distro world, it would still be > > nice to have Release Notes with some info on whats new/changed. > > > > Eugene. > > > > > If the developers bothered to write stuff like that for every package > (most of them have changelogs BTW) Gentoo would be like Debian.. years > between releases > -- Yeah, true. Besides, when Neil made that comment he was speaking of the iso which is the 'installation disc' so I think that Neil was completely consistant. cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list