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Gentoo's archs

Posted Mar 15, 2005 15:53 UTC (Tue) by jdv (subscriber, #712)
In reply to: Gentoo's archs by Duncan
Parent article: Debian proposes dropping most architectures

There's another to be made in this context, however, that being that even the various main Gentoo archs aren't "release locked" to each other. That is, each arch can release on its own schedule.

Imho, that is more or less what is now being proposed for debian. Well, except for the four or so most important archs, which remain locked.

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Gentoo's archs

Posted Mar 15, 2005 18:14 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

check again, the secondary archs will get 'snapshot' releases, not full releases with security support.

there's a huge difference between the two.

Gentoo's archs

Posted Mar 15, 2005 21:25 UTC (Tue) by jdv (subscriber, #712) [Link]

Right, I misread -- I assumed that those snapshot releases would be more like real releases, but it would seem that is not true. Hopefully, a seperate community effort could pick up the pieces, though, and make a real stable distribution out of it, security support and all.