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From: Maik Schreiber <blizzy@g.o>
To: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>, gentoo-core <gentoo-core@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo "stable" going in wrong direction ?
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 21:06:46
Message-Id: 20021216210420.GA11372@wolverine.hh.iq-computing.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo "stable" going in wrong direction ? by Martin Schlemmer
1 > Mozilla 1.2.1 is marked as testing, cause there are still some minor
2 > issues with it. Then, if anybody did mind checking, it do not
3 > depend on x11-libs/xft, but compile it internally. I have taken
4 > much time to have its Xft2.0 'contained' ... you will see that its
5 > not even libXft.so or libXrender.so anymore, but libXft_moz.so and
6 > libXrender_moz.so ... This change seems to fix some issues that
7 > some people had with it not starting, so it may be marked stable
8 > in a bit if all goes well ...
9
10 Sorry if this was causing confusion with you, but Mozilla was just an example. The discussion was about marking an otherwise stable package
11 as "unstable" because some of its dependencies were marked "unstable".
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14 Maik Schreiber, Gentoo Linux Developer
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16 mailto:blizzy@g.o
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