KDE 3.4 Stable on Gentoo

aeruzcar · 05-09-2005, 03:34 AM

Hello THere
Does anyone know why kde 3.4 on gentoo has not been marked stable in almost 2 months?
Thanks!!

jtshaw · 05-09-2005, 08:22 PM

Cause it isn't stable?

Gentoo has been a lot more careful about marking big things like that stable recently. It stems mostly from people getting upset when they spend a week compiling KDE 3.4 only to find an annoying bug and have to spend another week compiling KDE 3.4-r1... and then KDE 3.4-r2... ect. That, and KDE is exceptionally hard to get all the compile options right with to ensure you get all the features you want.

aeruzcar · 05-09-2005, 09:13 PM

I see, thanks for your reply
Talking about the packages, when they decide the packages are stable, the same packages that were marked testing are put to stable or they are new packages?
Thanks

jtshaw · 05-10-2005, 08:40 AM

They mark whichever package they decide is most stable as stable. It is rare they would change an ebuild and mark it stable simultaneously, because any changes cause room for bugs.

However, that being said, they might decide something is wrong with kdelib-3.4.ebuild and great a new unstable version called kdelib-3.4-r1.ebuild... thus kdelib-3.4.ebuild might never become stable.