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On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:30:48 +0000 (UTC), james wrote: |
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> If it's ready for testing shouldn't it be (~) masked and not (M) masked? |
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> If not, what the meaning of masking with (~) versus (M) |
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~arch means a testing ebuild. In this case, the package apparently is |
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considered not ready for general release, but it is available for those |
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who wish to participate in the testing. The same thing happens with KDE |
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beta/rc releases: the ebuilds go into portage but are masked, because the |
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software itself is considered untested (obviously if it is beta). |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers |
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believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." |
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