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Hi Zack, |
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first off, are you familiar with the masked packages and how to use |
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them? Some of the packages you want might not be marked stable yet. |
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Basically, if you want to use something that isn't stable, you can do |
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something like this: |
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echo app-accessibility/emacspeak >> /etc/portage/package.mask |
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You can substitute any other package you want to use for |
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app-accessibility/emacspeak, it was just an example. If there are new |
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versions of packages that you know about that are not in the tree, you |
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can file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org and request a version bump for |
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the package. |
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The way to get things moved to stable is to use them and report problems |
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to the bugzilla address I gave above. If packages do not have bugs |
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open, they will eventually be marked stable. |
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Thanks, |
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William |
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 06:56:19PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> (For some reason my emails to the list haven't been getting through |
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> using my old address, so I subscribed this one...) |
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> I've noticed that several accessibility-related ebuilds are out of sync |
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> with the latest available from the upstream sources. Orca comes to mind, |
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> as does Emacspeak and Speechd-El. I'm not terribly familiar with the |
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> Gentoo ebuild creation process, nor with who, if anyone, is supposed to |
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> maintain these. I do notice, for instance, that Orca is at 2.1 upstream |
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> and 1.00 here. I don't want to fall behind, if possible, in terms of |
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> features and such. |
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> Is this an issue which I should report elsewhere? Should I try to make |
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> ebuilds for these packages myself? |
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> Thanks much, |
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> Zack. |
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