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From: Jeff Horelick <jdhore@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Portage 2.2 - when will it go stable?? WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:36:18
Message-Id: CAFhp8z6sCzWeOseQUV8cUJXZ4T6zG10EdUpyQDMMMjwgc1aTsw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Portage 2.2 - when will it go stable?? WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list by Tanstaafl
1 On 11 July 2012 14:23, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On 2012-07-11 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >>
4 >> Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become
5 >> stable it seems,
6 >
7 >
8 > Can anyone comment on *why* it is taking so long? It is beginning to border
9 > on ridiculous - if it is ready (which I seem to recall lots of references to
10 > 'why are you still using 2.1??), why not just stabilize it already? I try
11 > really hard not to run anything unstable unless I absolutely have to (for
12 > obvious reasons)...
13 >
14
15 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210077 <--- This is why it's
16 taking so long, there are still MANY bugs that should really be fixed.
17
18 Part of why it's taking so long for those bugs to be fixed is because
19 programmatic sets and preserve-libs aren't a priority, but things like
20 supporting new EAPIs and such are a far bigger priority.