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  Re: Povray (and blender) in the linux package management systems.  
From: Eero Ahonen
Date: 1 May 2008 15:21:20
Message: <481a1830@news.povray.org>
Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> 
> Debian and Ubuntu use the same package management *software*; but each 
> has its own repository of packages. Debian is famous for having outdated 
> packages, at least on the 'stable' version of the distro :)

Usually yes, but now I'm ashtounished, except...

> Debian stable has blender 2.42, Debian testing and unstable have 2.45.

...if you're talking about 32-bit versions, since Gentoo  atm *no* 
stable Blender:
groath ~ # emerge -pv blender

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies /
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "media-gfx/blender" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your 
request:
- media-gfx/blender-2.45-r3 (masked by: package.mask, ~amd64 keyword)
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Luca Barbato <lu_### [at] gentooorg> (26 Mar 2008)
# huge ffmpeg migration mask, append to this further packages working
# with the new include layout

- media-gfx/blender-2.45-r2 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
- media-gfx/blender-2.43-r1 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
- media-gfx/blender-2.43 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)


-- 
Eero "Aero" Ahonen
    http://www.zbxt.net
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