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On Tuesday 29 Nov 2011 14:26:17 Dale wrote: |
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> Michael Mol wrote: |
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> > on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and |
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> > it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in |
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> > the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge |
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> > googletalk-plugin, and it's masked. It's also a '9999' version |
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> > package. I vaguely recall that '9999' packages are special somehow. |
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> > How is that? |
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> I think those are called the live builds. Basically, they are not |
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> tested much and are really close to falling off the bleeding edge. I |
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> rarely mess with those. There is a google-talkplugin-2.5.6.0 that is |
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> not live but keyworded. If it was me, I would at least try that version |
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> first. It is likely tested a bit more, not going to change so often and |
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> be stable as it gets in the unstable branch of the tree. If that fails, |
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> go back to the older version. If neither works, then I would try to |
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> 9999 build. I'd also cross my fingers for good measure. |
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9999 builds is the latest potentially unstable and incomplete code that the |
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devs just churned out and uploaded to cvs. 10 minutes later may be another |
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revision and so on. Every time you rebuild you'll be downloading the latest |
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attempt of their coding. |
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What is annoying is that you had it working just right and suddenly all the |
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9999 builds have come off the boil and break in a bad way. This can be |
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particularly burdensome or even debilitating for a prolonged period, like I |
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experienced with some wireless drivers in the past. |
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Of course, not all 9999 packages are that 'unstable'. I've been running e17 |
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for some time now and only every once in a while I happen to come across a bug |
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or build problem. Even so, I tend not to update 9999 packages often, once I |
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get a well behaving revision. |
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YMMV |
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Regards, |
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Mick |