On Monday 06 June 2005 19:45, Collins Richey wrote: > 2. Enterprise users (as a general rule) are not interested in the > latest and greatest but rather in a stable, reasonably current system > that can remain in place (with guaranteed security fixes, of course) > with no "feature creep" for a few years. Even Gentoo stable is too > much of a moving target for such users. The user base (engineers > developing embedded Linux) I support is still well served by RH9 for > the most part!
"Feature creep" is largely a problem upstream, not with package maintainers. And no, we're not gonna backport anything. If people really believe that backporting fixes = stable and/or secure, let them use RH. It's a belief, nothing more. Cheers, Dylan Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x708E165F -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
