Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> skribis: > Now I am not actually voicing a complaint. Gentoo, IMO, is still > the best distribution for Linux. I am just wondering why there > is such a great lag before a package version is deemed stable -- or > even unstable. In my experience with maintaining my own Linux system, > I never had any great issues with always installing the latest "bleeding" > edge software.
Writing ebuilds that work for practically everyone is hard. Gentoo has to handle a lot of cases.
