On 31 Dec 2008, at 23:51, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
Having just been bitten by some of my hardware being abandoned with
the latest
version of a software package I am left to question the entire
philosophy in
gentoo of always running bleeding edge. Not touching a system that's
working
is becoming far more tempting, and I'm curious as to what others
here have to
say about that.
I think what you should be asking is why upstream have stopped
supporting your hardware. Hopefully they'll be able to give a good
reason for doing so.
IMO the Gentoo philosophy is not to run "bleeding edge", but just to
install from upstream, keeping it as "pure" and unchanged as possible.
Stroller.
