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On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:29:53 +0200 "Noack, Sebastian" |
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<S.Noack@××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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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 |
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| unmerge the current stable version. I would prefer to have a stable |
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| version for daily work and the beta version for testing purposes at |
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| the same time on my system. Therefore I would propose to introduce a |
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| policy, which forces each ebuild with the suffix _alpha, _beta or |
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| _pre have to be slotable. |
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Too inflexible. Not all upstreams use sane versioning schemes. Now, if |
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we had slot deps, encouraging wider use of slots along with trivial |
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little eselect modules to handle the symlinks might be a good idea, but |
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requiring it is silly. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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