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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] E17 and package.use
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:13:51
Message-Id: 201011200114.02063.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] E17 and package.use by Mick
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 11:06 on Friday 19 November 2010, Mick did
2 opine thusly:
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5 > So it seems that I should delete efl, install enlightenment overlay
6 > instead, remove any package.keywords on all 9999 ** packages (?) that I
7 > had set up for efl and instead unmask beta versions of packages as portage
8 > is telling me to do. Have I got this right, or should I leave 9999 ** in
9 > my package keywords for the enlightenment packages?
10 >
11 > I may wait until Sunday or so in the hope that all this dust has settled,
12 > because I fear that I may be caught half-way between changes on efl and
13 > enlightenment overlays with no way of installing a working desktop.
14 >
15 > Thanks again for holding my hand on this.
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17 It just got even more interesting. The EFL libs (but not the window manager)
18 just got committed to the portage tree.
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20 The version is 1.0.0_beta2 and the devs have stated they intend no more
21 API/ABI breakages. So I'm tempted to say we should install the beta libs so we
22 don't have to constantly upgrade the whole lot.
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27 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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