Matthew Toseland schrieb: > On Wednesday 04 March 2009 18:13:15 Thomas Sachau wrote: >> Hi together, >> >> just a short announcement from me: >> >> Freenet (with all dependencies) and FMS are part of the main tree of Gentoo > Linux, so their users >> can now install freenet using their preferred package manager. >> >> As usual, bug reports should be directed to the maintainer, either via IRC > or via Gentoo Bugzilla, >> so Gentoo related bugs can be sorted out before the reports get forwarded to > the freenet project. > > Can we be certain that this will not result in the same problems we had with > official packaging in Debian? I.e. a fixed version of Freenet frozen and > shipped on hardcopy media for several years, incompatible with the network > for most of that time?
Gentoo Linux does rolling releases, no fixed releases like debian and other binary-based distros do, so this should not become a problem. So, as long as there is a maintainer, there should always be some at least almost up-to-date version for Gentoo users.
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