From: t35t0r (t35t0r@gmail.com)
Date: 06/26/07
> Here's where I have to disagree... Bleeding edge? Over the past year
> and a half, I've seen a steady decline in the quality of the portage
> tree.
Yes, there is a problem with "upper management".
> You can usually get new ebuilds for major security issues in a
> timely manner, but there are quite a few applications that I use which
> used to have new ebuilds released fairly quickly following major
> releases, but now you have to wait in some cases over six to nine months
> even to get a minor point release on something that was downrev a year
> ago.
Then use bumper. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=445501
> There's so much bickering going on between the developers (just
> check out the Gentoo forums) that it's really hampered progress. All
> the great dependency handling doesn't really matter if you're having to
> resort to installing from source just go get anything moderately current.
The popular apps make it into portage quickly, but I haven't seen a
single distro which can keep up with OSS development. Just start
filling your portage overlays with SVN ebuilds. Set your make.conf
features to keep the built packages and you can share your binaries
with similar systems.
-- Send all requests to: nlug-request@linuxlists.org Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" Quick unsubscribe: <mailto:nlug-request@linuxlists.org?Subject=3Dunsubscribe> Mailing list archives may be found at: <http://www.nlug.org/mail/> ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral <http://www.netcentral.com/>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.6 : 12/02/07 CST