Hi, Gentoo! Why are there so many packages whose versions never become stable? By "many", I mean here at least two. :-)
These are the kernel and Firefox. My kernel is currently 2.6.39-gentoo-r3, built on July 18. By examining ebuilds, I now see that the ~amd64 is already up to 3.0.4-r1. I've missed 3.0.[0-3], it seems. My Firefox is on 3.6.20. Firefox 4 and 5 never became stable, and their ebuilds have disappeared already. Firefox 6 is still ~amd64. Am I being unreasonable feeling a bit peeved? I really don't want to have to guess which "unstable" versions are actually "stable enough". Is this phenomenom something new, or am I just new enough myself that I've never noticed before? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
