You would be amazed at how frustrated gentoo users make devs. Plus going from distribution to distribution not everything works 100% the same exact way.
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 14:35 +1300, Nick Rout wrote: > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:29:25 +0200 > Petteri Räty wrote: > > > Thiago Lüttig wrote: > > > Hi folks ! > > > I upgrade my gentoo every day, and when I try to upgrade the kde, the > > > portage always display the last version of kde as 3.4.1. But newer > > > versions of kde has been launched (3.4.3). What´s the reason of this > > > late version still remains in the portage list ?? > > > > > > > 3.4.1 is the latest version marked as stable. See portage documentation > > about using ~arch marked packages. 3.4.3 will be marked stable soon. > > Watch http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112842 for progress. > > > > I think the OP's point is that although the latest kde that is marked > "stable' by gentoo is 3.4.1, the kde group in fact have released (and > therefore consider stable) version 3.4.3. > > And the reason for that is that it takes some time for the gentoo build > system for kde to be considered stable. > > In other words after kde.org (or any other software writer) releases a > new version, it takes some time for the gentoo devs to make sure it is > working ok before they release it on the masses of gentoo users who rely > on the devs to keep their systems stable. > > And a bloody good thing too! > > > Regards, > > Petteri > > > > -- > Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- Douglas James Dunn .-. 468 South 7th street /v\ L I N U X Indiana, PA 15701 // \\ >Phear the Penguin< cell: (724) 316-8266 /( )\ Indiana University ^^-^^ of Pennsylvania () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email, /\ vCards, and proprietary formats. . .vir. d$b .d$$$$$$b. .cd$$b. .d$$b. d$$$$$$$$$$$b .d$$b. .d$$b. $$$$( )$$$b d$$$()$$$. d$$$$$$$b Q$$$$$$$P$$$P.$$$$$$$b. .$$$$$$$b. Q$$$$$$$$$$B$$$$$$$$P" d$$$PQ$$$$b. $$$$. .$$$P' `$$$ .$$$P' `$$$ "$$$$$$$P Q$$$$$$$b d$$$P Q$$$$b $$$$b $$$$b..d$$$ $$$$b..d$$$ d$$$$$$P" "$$$$$$$$ Q$$$ Q$$$$ $$$$$ `Q$$$$$$$P `Q$$$$$$$P $$$$$$$P `""""" "" "" Q$$$P "Q$$$P" "Q$$$P" `Q$$P" """
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