On Thursday 01 January 2009 02:29:15 Stroller wrote: > On 31 Dec 2008, at 23:51, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > Having just been bitten by some of my hardware being abandoned with > > the latest > > version of a software package I am left to question the entire > > philosophy in > > gentoo of always running bleeding edge. Not touching a system that's > > working > > is becoming far more tempting, and I'm curious as to what others > > here have to > > say about that. > > I think what you should be asking is why upstream have stopped > supporting your hardware. Hopefully they'll be able to give a good > reason for doing so.
He also asked a very generic question, the kind that doesn't really have an answer. So no-one likely will. For all we know, the hardware in question is a floppy drive. Or token ring. Michael, what package, what hardware are we talking about? Your question can only be answered in context. > IMO the Gentoo philosophy is not to run "bleeding edge", but just to > install from upstream, keeping it as "pure" and unchanged as possible. Gentoo is also somewhat general-purpose. There comes a point where obscure hardware is no longer worth the effort of supporting, or no-one is willing to do it, so that hardware has to be dropped. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
