Gentoo still thinks KDE 3.4 is unstable
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; Gentoo needs some sort of way to let users provide stability feedback. KDE 3.4.0 was released in March. It’s now almost May and as far as Gentoo is concerned KDE 3.4 is unstable. Yet, I’ve been using it flawlessly since the day after it was released. What gives?
The other thing that drives me nuts is the varience between projects when it comes to “unstable”. KDE 3.4 is marked as unstable yet works flawlessly. Apache 2.0.53 on the other hand, at least when I tried to install it back in early March, was also marked as unstable but was a complete mess and didn’t work at all. On the forums, the response to some user complaints about Apache’s unstability was “DON’T install unstable packages on a production machine”. While I understand that they are saying that to cover themselves, I think that most people are under the impression that unstable packages just mean that it may or may not work perfectly, not that it will mess your current install up.
Which brings me full circle; people wouldn’t be inclined to install unstable packages if it didn’t take the package maintainers so long to actually mark a package as stable.
Sun, 24 Apr 2005 18:01 Posted in Linux
