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Hello, |
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I have been looking around for sime time in various ebuilds since Gentoo |
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introduced the "stable" and "testing/unstable" feature... |
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Well, in general I think it is a very good idea but I don't think it is used |
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as it should be ! |
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For example Maik "blizzy" Schreiber told me about |
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http://gentoo-stable.iq-computing.de which is something like a "voting |
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system" but almost nobody is using it (for example mozilla 1.2.1 only has |
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one vote although many thousand people are using it - with success) and if |
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you take a look at the ebuild you see that every mozilla ebuild with version |
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1.2.1 has the keyword ~x86 - so stable users don't get it although there's |
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no reason for calling Mozilla 1.2.1 "unstable"... |
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In my opinion http://gentoo-stable.iq-computing.de should be a more-or-less |
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official voting system for the packages or gentoo stable will end like |
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debian stable and I don't think Gentoo wants to go *that* stable :) |
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There are just not enough users and feedback pushing unstable packages to |
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stable from what I see... |
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There was/is talk about package.mask being removed in the future - good idea |
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but I think it should look like this |
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stable: KDE 3.0.5 |
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unstable: KDE3.1RC5 |
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stable: Mozilla 1.2.1 |
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unstable: Mozilla 1.3a |
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and so on...In short: Gentoo stable should be as close as possible to what |
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the developers of the various applications call "stable" - why not believe |
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them ? ;p |
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Currently the package.mask carries packages which have a right to be called |
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unstable, e.g. XFree 4.2.99 and so on... |
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But the stable/unstable situation in some ebuilds is a bit confusing and |
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leading in the wrong direction if continued like this ? |
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Of course every distribution needs to test individual things, make some |
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changes here and there...And to avoid a bad stable tree I highly suggesst |
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using blizzy's system... |
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I didn't know of it, he just told me some minutes ago and I think it's a |
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great chance for people to vote for it etc. - if it's used and developers |
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set their ebuilds as 'stable' according to what people voted (or not)... |
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Just my opinion about current stable/unstable things... |
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Rainer |
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