Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-12 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hello there! > > > Among other information the Gentoo page at DistroWatch [1] displays a > table on about 200 selected packages [2] and how up to date Gentoo is > per package. I assume that DistroWatch is still one of the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-12 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Ryan Hill wrote: > Personally I don't see how gaming the system helps us in any way. I was afraid it could be read in such a way. Handing out fake version numbers would be much easier, wouldn't it? I want every single package int he tree to be stable, up to date and polished. But as our resourc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2009.0 profiles

2009-09-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 11 September 2009 19:48:03 George Prowse wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > ... > > Why not tie the the thing that makes Gentoo unique and one of the major > reasons why users use it to the version numbers - Portage. > > We had 1.2, then 1.4 then 2004.0 and if i'm not mistaken portage i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: 2009.0 profiles

2009-09-12 Thread Jeremy Olexa
Mike Frysinger wrote: On Saturday 29 August 2009 05:42:45 Duncan wrote: Mike Frysinger posted on Sat, 29 Aug 2009 02:56:33 -0400 as excerpted: On Friday 28 August 2009 20:05:12 Alex Alexander wrote: On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 00:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 28 August 2009 16:27:18 Sebasti

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-12 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Aaron Bauman wrote: > Sebastian, > I definitely admire your point and know that through your tracking and > Google > SoC project you have good visibility on this I do however have to disagree. > As much as I enjoy the open source community and admire the products they put > out I do beli

Re: [gentoo-dev] DistroWatch and Gentoo packages: status quo and future

2009-09-12 Thread Sebastian Pipping
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote: >> koffice (2.0.2) 1.6.3 > > There has been koffice-meta-2.0.2 for a while. Good catch, thank you! Sebastian