Re: [gentoo-dev] stable and unstable branches.

[Christian Axelsson <smiler@lanil.mine.nu>]

How about mask the "unstable" ebuilds in the stable distribution?
That provides a simple solution for the Debian problem. If you want that
new bleeding edge ebuild, just unmask it on your own risk. It will probably 
just be as stable as it is today.
But to talk against myself on this: 

GenToo Linux is a distribution for powerusers by powerusers :)

And as mentioned in another mail in this thread; there's a bugzilla page: USE IT!
I've submitted alot of bugs already and I've only been using gentoo for a month and ALL
bugs have been solved within a day or two

--
Christian Axelsson
smiler@lanil.mine.nu

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:31:36 +0200
Christian Bartl <psy-sec@gmx.at> wrote:

> I don't think that it would be such a good idea.
> I can only speak for myself: As I love Gentoo, but don't have the time to test
> known unstable software I'm sure I would be the first user who never touches
> the unstable branch. I think Gentoo would get the same problems like GNU/Linux
> or Debian: Everyone waits for it getting officially stable and testing is has
> to be done by a few freaks.
> Whoever needs a stable Gentoo now only has to read the mailing-lists an knows
> about common problems.
> So you great developers: if you want to get you ports tested by many people
> don't tell the community (and me :-) that it isn't stable.
> 
> best regards
> Christian
> 
> At 22:06 23.07.2002 +0200, you wrote:
> >I think it should really be a very good idea to create two different 
> >branches of the gentoo distribution. A stable and a unstalbe (or testing) 
> >one. This becouse i usually find that some e-build simpy does not compile. 
> >I know that it is a relly difficult task to get all the e-build working 
> >right, but i also think that some people (like me) should prefer to work 
> >with a little outdated packages that have been tested for some time, 
> >instead of having to work with cutting edge packages that doesn't compile. 
> >Don't get me wrong. I belive that gentoo is the best linux distro i have 
> >ever seen, but this should really be an important way to go.
> >It also should be really easy to implement thanks to the possibility to 
> >select different profiles.
> >So let me know what you think about this.
> >Thanks
> >
> >Stefano Peluchetti
> >
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