On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through > and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does > not constitute a release of a recent version IMHO.
They're not "unstable", they are "testing", and that only applies to the ebuild itself, not the upstream package. If you want the latest versions, you need to run ~arch. Any distro that puts brand new packages (with the exception of security fixes) into its stable package tree has thrown all concept of QA out of the window. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 30: Business ethics
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