On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 20:46:04 -0600 William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> s/month/year/ > > Do you feel the same way then? I have heard of stabilizations taking > this long before. I just had to try to pick something reasonable for > the discussion. > > I suppose a compromise would be, instead of removing the old versions, > move them back to ~arch for a month then remove them, but that still > implies action on your part. > > William If I need or want a feature or bugfix which isn’t in the newer version, I always have the choice to use ~. If I don’t, why do I care if the package is a year old? I lose none of my time to use the old version, since it does all I want; I lose a nonzero amount of time if I get a version which breaks things (even if the only time I lose is the time it takes to downgrade), so it’s in my best interest to use the stable versions of such packages, even if they’re a month, a year, or three years old. -- Christopher Head
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