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From: Maik Schreiber <blizzy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o, gentoo-core <gentoo-core@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo "stable" going in wrong direction ?
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 22:01:34
Message-Id: 20021216204303.GC8276@wolverine.hh.iq-computing.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo "stable" going in wrong direction ? by Jon Portnoy
1 >> So again, there's no point in masking a package "unstable" just because its dependencies are "unstable".
2 >
3 > Er? If the dependencies are marked unstable and the package isn't, nobody
4 > (or nobody only using stable keywords, I should say) can install it unless
5 > the dependencies are marked stable...
6
7 Exactly, that's what is intended. So you simply don't gain anything with marking the package itself "unstable" as well, except for more
8 work.
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