On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:31:14 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > Gentoo was once VERY up to date, but than the 'stable mania' started > and since then, gentoo needs way to much time to get new versions into > the stable tree.
That's because stable is for people who consider stable more important than new. They don't want to be continually updating their systems. No one is forcing anyone to run a stable KDE, although it would make life easier if it were possible to put "kde-base/* ~arch" in portage.keywords. Gentoo is still VERY up to date, but only for those who choose the very up to date option. All the same, KDE 3.5.1 has been out for almost two months (I can understand the reticence in marking a .0 release stable) with very few patches applied. Considering the number of people that are using it successfully, that does seem rather a long time. However, Gentoo is a volunteer distro, and KDE is a BIG set of packages, it may simply be that there are not enough people available to work on the hundreds of ebuilds involved. -- Neil Bothwick Assassins do it from behind.
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