Author: Russell Gadd Date: To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Gentoo (was Unsupported Etch updates)
Samuel Penn wrote: > On Thursday 13 March 2008 20:44:58 Russell Gadd wrote:
>
>> The real point of all this is to ask about bug fixing as regards Debian
>> Etch. Taking Gnucash as an example, when I look at the progress of updates
>> on Gnucash's web site, I see that each update fixed bugs in previous
>> versions (naturally). However suppose I am running an older version in Etch
>> and a bug comes to light. This may well have been fixed in a later version,
>> but I am assuming that Etch won't have adopted that version. I presume the
>> Debian philosophy is that fixing most software is not a Debian issue
>> (exceptions maybe are security problems). So what are my choices?
>>
>
> This is one of the reasons I settled on Gentoo, since it's something Gentoo
> is designed to handle (at the expense of extra complexity for everyday stuff).
> Highly simplified explanation follows:
>
> <snip>
>
> Gentoo is definitely not suited to those not already comfortable with
> using and configuring Linux.
>
>
Great summary thanks. I looked at Gentoo after reading your post, but
decided to leave it as a possible project for some time ahead (along
with things like *BSD).
