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Serge posted <200512251946.05580.serge@×××××××.com>, excerpted below, on |
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Sun, 25 Dec 2005 19:46:05 +0200: |
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> I am using the 0.2.10 version [masked] and it works great. |
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That's what I'm running here, and I haven't unmasked it. Perhaps you mean |
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~amd64 keyworded? |
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There's a difference between masked (listed in package.mask, also known as |
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"hard" masked, indicating either serious known issues, or something so |
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raw upstream that there could be unknown serious issues yet to appear) and |
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~arch keyworded (~ denoting either an upstream beta released on Gentoo for |
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testing, in preparation for upstream full release, thus a version not |
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likely to ever go stable, or an upstream release with no known serious |
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issues, but where the Gentoo ebuild hasn't been fully tested yet, thus an |
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upstream version considered stable, with a Gentoo ebuild in line for |
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stable after testing). |
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Especially for those of us running ~arch by default, that difference is |
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huge, because it's the difference between being merged by default in an |
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upgrade, and requiring manual unmasking to get it to merge. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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