On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 04:35, Matt Thrailkill wrote: > Why not good old version numbers? > > Maybe start at 1.5 if what would be Gentoo 2004 were earthshattering > enough to warrant that, then just do 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, etc etc until > there is another earth-shattering change like portage-ng maybe?
I believe we decided that the date was more appropriate for Gentoo due to it's constantly moving nature. Gentoo "releases" are just the LiveCD/GRP/build environment and would be simply updates to the build environment. We would create security fixed packages for any of the packages in the GRP, but the portage tree would still remain "-current", as far as I understood it. There is the idea of creating multiple portage trees, for specific "releases" but this is actually a completely separate idea, which I would guess would probably be merged again down the road. -- Chris Gianelloni Developer, Gentoo Linux Games Team Is your power animal a pengiun?
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