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On 2017-09-27 02:38, Kai Krakow wrote: |
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> If you don't want (or cannot) upgrade, you have two options: |
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> 1. Prepare to maintain your own overlay and deal with it |
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> 2. Don't use a rolling release distribution |
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> Personally, and since you seem to know enough to manage your own |
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> overlay, I'd stick to #1. |
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I do so already, and in fact my initial workaround was to fork the |
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ebuild in my repo, pretty much like you recommend. |
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But I didn't know that this was the official way of stopping upgrades. |
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I thought package.mask was that, and I think that's what the Handbook |
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(or maybe some other part of the wiki) recommends. |
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Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, |
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if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. |
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Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet. |
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