On 21:24 Tue 01 Nov , Tuomo Valkonen wrote: > > Oh, and I am using the 20050116 version on GenToo (that is the only one > > indicated as stable in portage). > > Oh... that's _ancient_. No wonder scripts don't work or default settings are > weird. Please come back again when you've upgraded something no more than a > few months old :). There hasn't been a "stable" release of Ion3 yet, BTW. > > PS. Why's the gentoo package so much out of date? Anyone?
Gentoo packages are somehow different from software packages of other distributions.Someone who is interested in maintaining a package for ion3 writes an so called ebuild, which cares about applying patches, compiling from source, installing paths, doing chmod/chown on executables and so on. After some time, when the ebuild of ion3 doesn't break anything for the maintainer or Gentoo users don't send in bug reports, a package is marked as stable and appear in the stable branch. Anytime a user can choose to install newer versions of ion3, if he accepts the installation of as "unstable" marked versions. I use also Gentoo, but Ion3-20051029 without any problems.
