Debian debates amd64 port
Debian debates amd64 port
Posted Jul 26, 2004 9:52 UTC (Mon) by piman (guest, #8957)In reply to: Debian debates amd64 port by jondkent
Parent article: Debian debates amd64 port
When Gentoo's architecture and package count reach anywhere near Debian's, we'll see how well they scale.
Incidentally, Debian's testing distribution (which is where the releases come from) is snapshotted already. This is how releases happen. However, Debian also tries to actually set milestones between releases (ABI transitions, LSB compliance, new installers, etc). I'm not even sure how Gentoo would manage an ABI transition, aside from just breaking all the packages...
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