Re: [gentoo-dev] kde 3.2 beta2

[Caleb Tennis]

On Wednesday 28 July 2004 11:39 am, suka wrote:
> I strongly oppose this, I don't think it is a good idea to introduce
> development versions of such big packages, this could create all sorts
> of problems. For instance beta1 of kde 3.3 broke the openoffice-ximian
> compile with kde support because of a bug in kdelibs, and no matter how
> stable the beta might be for you, it might create lots of problems for
> the rest of us. (and the users who run unstable).

Which is why alpha1 and beta1 were package.masked.

I completely fail to understand why it being in package.mask or not has any 
bearing on life.  If you run into instability problems, they should be 
reported, and you should cease to use that version if necessary.  Up until 
now, all I've heard are success stories, with the occassional "hey, this 
doesn't work".  

Installing the 3.3 version does NOT uninstall 3.2, so continuing to use what 
is stable for you is still feasible.

> Also if I recall correctly the usual policy is that unstable is NOT for
> development versions but for the testing of stable versions. At least
> for libs which other packages depend on I totally agree with this. Users
> who want to try out development versions should also be able to edit
> package.mask

From my standpoint, this version is stable.  There needs to be fixes to the 
ebuilds yet, and there are still bugs in the 3.3 version no doubt.  But 
again, I see no evidence that makes me think this package truly needs to be 
masked.

This is the exact same procedure I went through with 3.2 - the difference is 
that I waited until _rc1 to take kde out of package mask as the beta had too 
many bugs in it (in my opinion).  That doesn't seem to be the case with this 
version.

If anyone still has a problem with this, please file a bug report listing the 
problem areas that are creeping up, or contact me offlist.

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