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On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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>> if you use testing, you have to deal with such kind of situations. |
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>> Using a known broken version is just stupid. There isn't a choice |
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>> between those two. There is only a choice between: use unstable or |
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>> stable. And if you use unstable, don't complain about things being |
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>> fluid. |
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Typical Volker. Not worth a response. |
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> - From what I can tell, he is not using ~amd64 (testing). He uses a |
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> mixed system (stable with a few packages in package.keywords) which |
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> sometimes is even worse :) |
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That's it precisely. All my systems are 'stable' as best they can be. |
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The only things that are more or less permanently testing are portage |
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& eix. After that the only entries in package.keywords are specific |
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applications or _very_ targeted things that address hardware issues. |
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(Virtualbox, VMWare Player, nvidia-drivers) That's it. In general, the |
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only reason ANYTHING goes in package.keywords is to address a |
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temporary package problem, and typically they aren't there that long. |
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For instance, if say Virtualbox had a problem I might keyword it for a |
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month or two to get a new release that fixes the problem. After that |
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version goes stable I remove the keyword entry and am running the same |
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version I've been running. My keyword file is currently only about 12 |
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lines. |
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In the case of skype there was no stable version to use. Everything is |
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marked as testing. |
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While I agree that the emulation libraries are probably low risk I |
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don't want to add 8 new things to package.keywords. It's just not the |
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way I work here. |
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> The best way to deal with your problem (and avoid seeing your |
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> package.keywords getting bigger and bigger) is to grab -r1, mark it |
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> stable, put it in your local overlay and keep using that indefinitely. |
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Yeah, most likely the best medium-term solution although what I've |
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done for now is emerge -C skype. |
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> - -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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Thanks Markos! I really appreciate your inputs as well as all the work |
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you guys do. We don't say thanks enough. |
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(Ugh Volker. Keep the attitude to yourself dude) ;-( |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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