Re: ambiguity about nmap results

["sara fink" <sara.fink () gmail com>]

Cool. Will add my ~x86 and emerge the new version. I love the stable
versions. I had a similar case with wireshark, until someone said that
the latest version is actually stable.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Brandon Enright <bmenrigh () ucsd edu> wrote:
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> "sara fink" <sara.fink () gmail com> wrote:
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> > on my laptop I have nmap version 4.60 from gentoo portage.
> > 4.62 appears as non stable in portage.
>
> The Gentoo arch/~arch model (as well as most other distributions notion
> of stable/unstable) typically doesn't match the Nmap development cycle.
>
> For Nmap it is generally the case that x.z is /more/ stable and better
> tested than x.y when z > y.
>
> At least for nmap, you probably should add
>
> # Networking (or ~x86, etc)
> net-analyzer/nmap ~amd64
>
> to /etc/portage/package.keywords
>
> I love Gentoo but don't expect the devs and package maintainers to make
> the best decisions for your particular usage case.
>
> Brandon
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