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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:29:32
Message-Id: 456CA91B.9050906@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Versioning the tree by James Potts
1 James Potts wrote:
2 > This looks good on the surface, Chris, but what happens in the case
3 > where somebody wants to use the Release tree, but also wants (or
4 > needs) one or more packages from the Live tree, and doesn't want to
5 > switch completely over to the live tree? If I understand what you
6 > want to do correctly, the Release tree would include only stable
7 > packages. Other packages wouldn't just be masked, they would be
8 > completely unavailable to anybody using that tree.
9
10 This is what overlays are for :)
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