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Daniel Pielmeier wrote: |
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> I will try to explain this a bit from what I know from mailing-lists and IRC. |
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> First there are no problems with portage-2.2. It has been masked |
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> because some features are not ready and thus are blocking |
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> stabilisation. As a conclusion portage-2.1.6 has been branched out |
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> without this features to get a stable version into the tree which has |
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> support for eapi 2 and all other features that are ready. |
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> To get more testing to 2.1.6 version it has been decided to mask 2.2 |
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> with the hope more people are using 2.1.6 to get remaining bugs fixed |
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> and to get it stable quickly. Of course some users which are for |
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> instance using kde-4 or other stuff which will need features that are |
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> only in 2.2 will have to unmask portage 2.2 to get the system running. |
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> This is one thing that annoys me a bit of gentoo. There is way to much |
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> information that is not passed to the users, a short announcement |
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> which explains the situation on the homepage, forum or even the |
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> gentoo-user mailing list and everything would be fine. Some things |
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> important for users are often discussed only on IRC or the gentoo-dev |
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> mailing list so they do not reach most of the users. Examples are this |
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> portage masking and the perl package moves to name a few things that |
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> happened recently. |
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Of course, there is the Gentoo monthly newsletter. Supposed to be |
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monthly anyway. I haven't seen one in a while so it may be going |
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quarterly this time. ;-) |
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I do wish they had or would use a announce mailing list to inform people |
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of changes, big ones anyway, that are coming or in the process of |
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happening. At least that way we would know what is about to get borked |
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or worse and require some huge emerges to get back on track. |
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Anyway . . . . |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |