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How about mask the "unstable" ebuilds in the stable distribution? |
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That provides a simple solution for the Debian problem. If you want that |
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new bleeding edge ebuild, just unmask it on your own risk. It will probably |
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just be as stable as it is today. |
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But to talk against myself on this: |
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GenToo Linux is a distribution for powerusers by powerusers :) |
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And as mentioned in another mail in this thread; there's a bugzilla page: USE IT! |
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I've submitted alot of bugs already and I've only been using gentoo for a month and ALL |
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bugs have been solved within a day or two |
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Christian Axelsson |
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smiler@××××××××××.nu |
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On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:31:36 +0200 |
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Christian Bartl <psy-sec@×××.at> wrote: |
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> I don't think that it would be such a good idea. |
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> I can only speak for myself: As I love Gentoo, but don't have the time to test |
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> known unstable software I'm sure I would be the first user who never touches |
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> the unstable branch. I think Gentoo would get the same problems like GNU/Linux |
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> or Debian: Everyone waits for it getting officially stable and testing is has |
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> to be done by a few freaks. |
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> Whoever needs a stable Gentoo now only has to read the mailing-lists an knows |
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> about common problems. |
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> So you great developers: if you want to get you ports tested by many people |
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> don't tell the community (and me :-) that it isn't stable. |
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> best regards |
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> Christian |
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> |
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> At 22:06 23.07.2002 +0200, you wrote: |
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> >I think it should really be a very good idea to create two different |
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> >branches of the gentoo distribution. A stable and a unstalbe (or testing) |
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> >one. This becouse i usually find that some e-build simpy does not compile. |
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> >I know that it is a relly difficult task to get all the e-build working |
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> >right, but i also think that some people (like me) should prefer to work |
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> >with a little outdated packages that have been tested for some time, |
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> >instead of having to work with cutting edge packages that doesn't compile. |
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> >Don't get me wrong. I belive that gentoo is the best linux distro i have |
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> >ever seen, but this should really be an important way to go. |
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> >It also should be really easy to implement thanks to the possibility to |
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> >select different profiles. |
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> >So let me know what you think about this. |
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> >Thanks |
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> > |
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> >Stefano Peluchetti |
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