Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

[Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org>]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:13:14AM -0800, Jon Kent wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Releases tend to be out of date.  But that's a
> > feature: releases need to be composed of well tested
> stable packages. 
> > testing and unstable
> > have pretty up to date packages.  So Debian is as up
> > to date as you
> > want; the caveat being that for newer software,
> > you'll need to put up
> > with some instability.
> 
> It must said that comparing Gentoo with Debian in this
> regard is unfair as they are not like for like, being
> source against binary package.  That said some things
> (X 4.2 springs to mind) take far too long to make it
> to testing.

  Could you run X 4.2 in, say, s390 that date? FYI, X is supported in 11
  archs in Debian, a lot more than upstream supports.

  And I want to make one question: where is the improvement in
  performance when I need two or three days to install a thing like
  GNOME or KDE? You'll need to use it some eons to get some earn with
  that.
  If you want to compile things because that makes fun to you, you can do.
  Some people in Debian does that from time to time and fills FTBFS bugs
  on packages. Perhaps you could help them.

  And if the only thing you like is to use the latest version of a tool,
  please, get the CVS version, and help upstream to improve it.


/me, tired of Gentooers

-- 
  Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo
     jsogo@debian.org