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On 14/03/2013 01:09, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:16:07AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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>> On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:24:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> A useful trick I use on my Gentoo test/dev vms is a defined set called |
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>>> @tools. These all use a shared /etc/portage/ for consistency, so add bc |
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>>> to the set and it is merged everywhere. This helps keep my world free of |
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>>> clutter. |
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>> I do a similar thing, I have a set called @base, the first thing I do |
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>> after unpacking a stage 3 and setting up make.conf is emerge @base. It |
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>> means I have everything I expect on a computer and also shortcuts some of |
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>> the install steps. |
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> How are the portage-2.2.0 alphas for stability/bugs (hopefully lack |
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> thereof)? I see alpha163 and alpha166 available. |
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I find them very stable and bug-free, haven't had an issue with them |
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since the -rc series started (that's what? 2 years ago? more?) |
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I think Zac uses the alphas to test how well his ideas work in practice, |
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each version numbers seems to implement one new idea at a time. Things |
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stay in or come out based on how well they behave in the real world, so |
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there is some feature churn but very few bugs as such. He must be doing |
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decent testing on his end before pushing updates out :-) |
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