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

[Paul Hoy <paul.hoy@mac.com>]

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On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Holly Bostick wrote:

> Nick Rout schreef:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
> OK, I'll bite. What then do you consider "a release of a recent  
> version"
> to be constituted from?
>

I don't really understand your question. The most recent version to  
me coincides to a release date closest to whatever today is.

> If it's been released upstream, and it's in Portage a couple of hours
> later, so I can install it, I don't know what more you could want....
> what, you want a Mandrake- (or worse, still, Debian) -style wait of
> months before you can use the upstream version?
>

I don't agree with you. There are many examples where a file that has  
been released upstream has not found its way into Portage. I've  
provided examples elsewhere in this thread. You can also compare with  
the Fedora feedlist.


> I'll grant you that it's sometimes a little bumpy... but then you  
> might
> as well be running Slack or something (not that there's anything wrong
> with Slackware except the appalling package management).
>

I agree. I don't like like Slackware's package management either.


> But since I have yet to find a problem I couldn't solve in a few
> minutes-- and if I couldn't, it was clearly a dev issue/b.g.o issue,
> where I could generally count on it to be solved within hours, if not
> prior to my discovery-- I really can't quite see what you're on about.
>

Perhaps you've pointed out the difference in perspectives and  
experience. I've run into a few problems where it has taken me longer  
than a merely few mintues to resolve a problem.

I'm actually not "on about" anything. I'm interested in the  
differrences/similarities between LFC and Gentoo, which I stated in  
my original email.

> What would be different in the Gentoo you envision?
>

Well, that's actually the question I'm asking.

> Holly
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