[TAG] Gentoo quote

mso@oz.net mso
Mon Oct 31 21:36:26 MSK 2005


'In the spirit of "having a package before upstream releases it", Donnie
Berkholz wrote: "The first release candidate [modular X 7.0 RC 1] was
announced roughly 12 hours ago. And fitting the Gentoo you know as up to
the minute, so far beyond the bleeding edge that it's wearing a Band-Aid
before it starts to bleed, comes the complete package in Portage -- all
296 packages worth."'
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20051031-newsletter.xml

(Now, if only it hadn't taken them a year to make Python 2.4 stable,
months after 2.3 was disrecommended upstream.)






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