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Noack, Sebastian wrote: |
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> Hi folks, |
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> I like to try bleeding edge beta versions. But I hate that if I will |
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> install for example the new firefox 2 beta via portage, it will unmerge |
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> the current stable version. I would prefer to have a stable version for |
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> daily work and the beta version for testing purposes at the same time on |
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> my system. Therefore I would propose to introduce a policy, which forces |
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> each ebuild with the suffix _alpha, _beta or _pre have to be slotable. |
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> Best Regards |
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> Sebastian Noack |
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Not feasable. You have 2 possible ways of doing it though. one is to |
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use a chroot to test these things, and the other is to take a quickpkg |
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of the stable version and emerge -k when you're done testing the |
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bleeding edge stuff. |
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