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From: Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for kde3 beta etc.
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 12:25:37
Message-Id: 0GOR0095HCI2PS@mxout2.netvision.net.il
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for kde3 beta etc. by Daniel Robbins
1 On Saturday 22 December 2001 19:28, you wrote:
2 > Can you just put them on Portage and add them to package.mask?
3 I could, and that'd be the most comfortable option (for me). But when I
4 originally discussed this with Hallski (in kde3-alpha1 days) he decided I
5 shouldn't do that. His reason was/is, that portage shouldn't become a testing
6 ground for beta packages on the scale of KDE when a good stable version of
7 the package already exists, not even masked. (Maybe he could explain more
8 fully/correctly).
9
10 I hope this explains the situation.
11
12 --
13
14 Dan Armak
15 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
16 Matan, Israel

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for kde3 beta etc. Guido Bakker <g.p.c.bakker@×××××.nl>