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On 27/11/17 18:44, Christopher Head wrote: |
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> For those of us who run mostly stable systems, there is one question I don’t know a good answer to. |
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> If I add a specific version of a game to package.accept_keywords, I will get that version forever. That’s not really what I want: I prefer to stay up to date as new versions are packaged. |
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> If I add just a cat/pkg to p.a_k, Portage will always try to pull in the latest version. If that version has some unstable dependencies which I haven’t also accepted, Portage will yell at me. An example of this is games-emulation/mednafen-0.9.46 depending on dev-libs/lzo-2.10, the latter of which is unstable. |
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> What I really want to install is, “the latest version of the package that doesn’t pull in any deps that aren’t available (stable or accepted),” but I don’t know any way to tell Portage that. Am I missing something, or is that indeed impossible? |
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Sounds to me a failure in adhering to the stabilisation criterion that |
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state that all deps must be stabilised FIRST .. as the bugzilla |
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stable-bot will now automagically check ... |
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