I'm noticing a recurring problem with a lot of software

Install Arch

They don't expect anyone to actually use their shit, it's just material for your CV

>>62268134
Which repos are you looking at? Some repos prefer "stability".

>>62270617
The specific case that got me kinda miffed was gcc being at 4.8 on red hat. I'm sure it's in the name of stability but it kinda blows when I go to do a cmake and it's complaining about features that aren't in this version.

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>>62268134

>>62268134
if you mean a distros repositories, well the distro maintainers decide what and what version goes into the repo and when/if an update is added to the repo, not the actual software maker

>>62268891
that's a funny way to say gentoo

>>62268134
Source? Image search only finds this same crop on imageboards.