From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for kde3 beta etc.
Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 09:49:18 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011225094918.D6926@chiba.3jane.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1009282203.1648.4.camel@zoidberg>
On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 01:10:02PM +0100, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Well, it's very much unsolved. Because users don't care about masking
> once they've learned how to get around it. As I said before _beta,
> masking will only hold back some and tell that it's unstable. But we'll
> end up supporting the stuff anyway.
This is easily solved. Just put a very clear comment in package.mask around
the mask entries stating in no unclear terms that *these packages are not yet
supported*, are *for developers only*, and *are very unstable*. *use at your
own risk*, *not a good idea* and *you'll regret it later* should do the trick!
:)
> This is just as the /incoming directory which many users started to use
> even though they shouldn't.
How so?
--
Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-25 15:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-22 16:57 [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for kde3 beta etc Dan Armak
2001-12-22 17:28 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-22 18:00 ` Dan Armak
2001-12-22 18:29 ` Guido Bakker
2001-12-22 18:12 ` Dan Armak
2001-12-23 13:44 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-23 14:07 ` Dan Armak
2001-12-23 23:08 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-24 0:36 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-24 8:27 ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-25 1:12 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-25 5:00 ` Dan Armak
2001-12-25 5:11 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-25 12:10 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-25 15:49 ` Daniel Robbins [this message]
2001-12-25 20:19 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-25 20:40 ` Geert Bevin
2001-12-26 1:47 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-26 2:14 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-26 2:44 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-26 3:01 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-26 3:33 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-26 4:10 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-26 5:43 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-26 6:39 ` Dan Armak
2001-12-26 6:51 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-26 6:56 ` Joshua Pierre
2001-12-27 19:41 ` Damon M. Conway
2001-12-26 5:16 ` Joshua Pierre
2001-12-26 1:51 ` Daniel Robbins
2001-12-24 9:59 ` Guido Bakker
2001-12-24 12:11 ` Sebastian Werner
2001-12-24 13:38 ` Dan Armak
2001-12-25 1:14 ` Mikael Hallendal
2001-12-23 14:13 ` Dan Armak
2001-12-26 9:34 ` Dan Armak
2001-12-26 9:37 ` Dan Armak
2001-12-26 13:46 ` Bart Verwilst
2001-12-26 16:50 ` Daniel Robbins
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