Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com posted
fecdbac60906160403r3d81bdc3uedcb0f6c89b50...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:03:33 +0300:
Yes, you test both new packages and new devs extensively. :D
I think that was the crux of the last low manpower thread over at
gentoo-dev
Well Frank, First and foremost, Gentoo is quite far ahead of the
other distros. I choose Gentoo on my server farm specifically because
it is much higher ahead in the stable department so much more than
Ubuntu and RHEL which ironically are the leaders in server OS
deployment. All too often I run
Frank Peters frank.pet...@comcast.net posted
20090615222731.b12f5121.frank.pet...@comcast.net, excerpted below, on
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:27:31 -0400:
In a lot of cases, for example perl, Xorg, and gcc, the Gentoo
distribution lags far behind the latest available releases. Even
allowing the
Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com posted
fecdbac60906160512p588c72c3ma0e7a38d6b48c...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:12:16 +0300:
For example, IIRC the
default emerge printouts don't give you any indication that there are
actual later versions available (even just in the
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:54:41 -0500
Chris Faulkner cfaulkne...@gmail.com wrote:
I tell you what, do what a lot of people are doing and that
is making your own ebuilds. Make a website, put your ebuilds on it
and test it out. You will further gentoo-dev out much better than it
is now.
Frank Peters wrote:
Maybe I'll post some ebuilds for cooledit and nedit. These are two
text editors for which I've filed bug reports and fixes, but there
has been no action yet due to lack of maintainers.
It may be a while though. After quickly looking through the developer's
manual, I can
