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On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 16:16 -0700, Peter Abrahamsen wrote: |
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> Hello Haubi, |
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> > I think I'm going a different way: cancel this glep, use already |
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> > established methods instead. I plan to do my own stable keywords in my |
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> > local tree, and when users want to have more packages, they simply can |
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> > use the main tree as overlay. |
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> Hmm. Can you elaborate a little on this? Isn't it a lot of work to |
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> keep all those packages up to date? |
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I do not have the requirement to be "up to date" here, but to be "really |
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stable". Keeping up to date also would mean old versions I have marked |
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stable dropping out too early for my release profiles, and I would have |
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to maintain them in a separate overlay anyway. |
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So I'm planning to update my local <200 package versions once a year or |
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much less often, or when a specific feature is required, while still |
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keeping the really old stable versions around. |
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> And as soon as one of your users |
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> adds the main tree as an overlay, those packages will take precedence |
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> over your own, carefully-maintained tree? |
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Yes. But this isn't a real use-case for my users here. |
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/haubi/ |
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Michael Haubenwallner |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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