On Tuesday 21 March 2006 16:40, "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] KDE version': > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 22:12, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 21.13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > To-day I installed kdebase using "emerge kdebase". > > > But the installed version was 3.4.3. > > > Is it right? Did not KDE reach 3.5 version? > > > > I did not sync recently but (on my amd64 machine) emerge --pretend > > =kde-3.5.0 shows the package are still masked with keyword. > > which is quite sad - KDE 3.5.1 is out for ages!
The KDE team is a bunch of weenies. :P Seriously, I think they hold package releases (even point releases) in package.mask and ~ARCH too long. HOWEVER, they are provide (IIRC) both split and monolithic ebuilds, which is quite a bit of work to get completely right. > But the times, that gentoo was pretty actual in the stable tree are > over. You do realize the above sentence makes no freakin' sense, right? > Is this so bad with gnome too? <sarcasm> What's gnome? </sarcasm> -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
