060505 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote:
Although modular, KDE 3.5 has to go stable _at once_
and if KMail is totally broken or has major feature loss, we can't.
I've seen this stated before, but why does it have to be _at once_ ?
Many packages have 1 stable version available,
so users might
On 5/5/06, Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All the whining leaves me with the feeling that I'm less interested to work
for you. The question What can I do? I do never hear. Stop whining, but
decide to help or give another distro a try. These are your choices.
Just to try to counter
On Saturday 06 May 2006 08:48, Philip Webb wrote:
I've seen this stated before, but why does it have to be _at once_ ?
Because 3.4 and 3.5 does _NOT_ mix together!
Many packages have 1 stable version available,
so users might have KDE 3.4.3 (all) 3.5.1 (parts) by now,
with the rest of
060506 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote:
On Saturday 06 May 2006 08:48, Philip Webb wrote:
I've seen this stated before, but why does it have to be _at once_ ?
Because 3.4 and 3.5 does _NOT_ mix together!
That's not an explanation: it merely restates your assertion.
Many packages have 1
Philip Webb wrote:
Any stable version of KDE will need kdelibs kdebase ,
but otherwise why can't the packages be made stable
at least as each big downloadable file becomes ready, if not individually ?
Because they have to be stable at once. Period.
Can't go stable piece by piece. Period.
Michael Kirkland wrote:
I think the problem is that Gentoo is falling into the same sandtrap the
Debian project has been mired in forever. arch and ~arch are
polarizing into stable, but horribly out of date, and maybe it will
work.
This leads to people trying to maintain a
frankenstinian
On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:20:08AM +0200, Bart Braem wrote:
Michael Kirkland wrote:
I think the problem is that Gentoo is falling into the same sandtrap the
Debian project has been mired in forever. arch and ~arch are
polarizing into stable, but horribly out of date, and maybe it will
Bart Braem wrote:
Xorg 7: 5 months
Can't stabilize till portage 2.1 is stable. Doesn't matter how many open
bugs we've got, or how well it works.
Thanks,
Donnie
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On Friday 05 May 2006 09:20, Bart Braem wrote:
KDE 3.5.2: 1.5 months (I know our devs get prereleases, so we had this
time)
Now I think we really explained that well enough, we're working to mark it
stable as soon as we can.
*We don't care if you wanted it stable yesterday, it will be stable
Jeff Rollin posted
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below, on Fri, 05 May 2006 06:28:53 +0100:
Or maybe we could move to a fixed release cycle. Debian uses 18 (?)
months, but maybe a 3- or 6-month release cycle would suit us better
Actually, Gentoo already has that, altho the period is still
I understand you don't care about how many users you have, Gentoo is not a
bussiness. But if I try to convince users about the current situation that
is hard. I can't explain this, I really can't. My only answer is put it
in /etc/portage/package.keywords. But that one is growing very fast...
Philip Webb posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below,
on Fri, 05 May 2006 03:37:06 -0400:
That's very much my own impression. I am now using ~x86 versions of Vim
Vim-core Gvim Cdargs Openoffice Eix Euses Gqview Gwenview Portage Firefox
Galeon Htop KDE -- all of which which I use regularly
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