On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:39 AM, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > "The latest distros seemed to be just a bunch of same old stuff. > Nothing new -- nothing innovative." ~ Larry's frustration. :( > > "Then Larry tried Gentoo Linux. He was just impressed. ... He > discovered lots of up-to-date packages ..." ~ Larry's happiness. :) >
I'm not suggesting that we should be backporting bugfixes for two years. I'm just suggesting that it isn't a big deal if stable packages are ~90 days behind in general. Plus, Larry can always run the just-released KDE or whatever by accepting ~arch for that package and get a system where nothing other than KDE is likely to break. I have nothing against improvements that help us keep up though. If a package gets held up because of actual regressions (go read Ago's blog RE definition of a regression) that is one thing. If things get held up simply because nobody notices they're late, that is another. Plus, the innovation Larry was talking about doesn't mean having chrome-29 in the tree two days sooner than some other distro. What is innovative about Gentoo at its heart is letting the user have his cake and eat it too, like running a stable system but still getting chrome-29 near release day. I do firmly believe that Gentoo is a great distro for getting neat things done. Manpower will still always be an issue. I requested stable on mythtv on x86 a few weeks ago, but I can completely understand that client-server apps that typically involve hardware just aren't going to get turned around on a dime (FYI - if anybody wants to volunteer test that on x86 feel free to contact me and we can probably work something out with the x86 arch team together). Rich
