OK you are probably correct but the point I was trying to make was that with a couple of commands...
emerge rsync && emerge -up world then emerge -uU world .....I have... KDE 3.3 Gimp 2.0.4 K3b 0.11.12-r1 Mozilla 1.7.2-r1 Gift 0.11.6-r1 Apollon 0.9.3 Samba 3.0.7 Apache 2.0.50-r1 Cups 1.1.20 Gnucash 1.8.9 Etc. etc. It is very simple for a user (not a geek or an expert) to have very up to date packages. I will stop now because I do not want to run down other distros - I just like the ease of use with Gentoo - for me. Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Gregan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 2004 10:42 a.m. To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Right way to compile Debian packages? At 2004-09-14T10:28:48+1200, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > I challenge any non Gentoo user to match the stable versions of > packages we Gentoo users have. It's a pointless challenge. The version numbers of a package are fairly meaningless when comparing across distributions. Why? Because some distributions backport large amounts of functionality from the latest version of a package to make the features available in what would otherwise appears to be an older version of the package. For example, and just looking at kernel features: - SuSE has had I/O write barriers in their kernel since 2.4.x, but this feature has only become available in the kernel.org kernel since 2.6.9-rc1. - Red Hat had NPTL and KAIO before any other distribution, and often has fixes in their glibc that aren't even available in glibc CVS yet. I could list examples like this ad infinitum. Cheers, -mjg -- Matthew Gregan |/ /| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
