Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:36:24
Message-Id: 201002031035.34714.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question by Alan McKinnon
1 On Tuesday 02 February 2010 20:53:39 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > Whereas willy-nilly mixing stable and unstable is normally condemned as a
4 > bad idea (with good reason), it generally considered OK with portage for
5 > the above reason. Portage is self-contained, unmasking it doesn't
6 > contaminate the system with legions of other unstable $STUFF
7
8 ...with the one exception* of a couple of eselect packages, which hardly
9 counts anyway.
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11 * Is "a couple" one or two? You decide.
12
13 --
14 Rgds
15 Peter.