On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:25:56 -0500 Mike Pagano <mpag...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Are there solid arguments for stabilizing any version of > gentoo-sources? I think the valid arguments for not stabilizing > gentoo-sources can be garnered from the thread about not stabilizing > vanilla-sources[1]. > > This is in no way complaining about how long it takes to stabilize a > kernel. It's just a fact that by the time we do stabilizing one, > there might be many, many kernel versions released for that 3.X > branch that contains security fixes for which the stable version will > not have. Kernel versions are coming out 1-2 a week at this point. There's also a problem to upgrade kernel for a user every 1-2 week by hands using "make oldconfig" and reading smth like kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges. Not everyone uses genkernel.
