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Old 8th June 2008
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Originally Posted by ninjatux View Post
Isn't this similar to a rolling release system in that you get what the developers think is stable out of what has been implemented up to that point? If someone really needs that, then why not just run CURRENT?
Because a RELEASE is pretty much guaranteed to work, and everyone can be sure tat when they install X.Y-RELEASE, they all get the same stuff. Two people updating to -CURRENT at 8:05pm on Monday are not guaranteed to get the same bits. Those two alone are more than enough reason to only run -CURRENT if you know what you are doing, know what you are getting into, know how to debug things if they break, and really, really, really need a feature that is only available in -CURRENT.

For the rest of us, having a known-good, consistent, working base is nice.
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