From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GAAhh-0003ww-NF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 19:23:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k77JLv94025779; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:21:57 GMT Received: from forum.psychotherapie.org (s15216962.onlinehome-server.info [217.160.22.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k77JJGYs013671 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:19:17 GMT Received: (from uucp@localhost) by forum.psychotherapie.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/SuSE Linux 0.7) with UUCP id k77JJGNu005236 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 21:19:16 +0200 Received: (from weigelt@localhost) by metux.de (8.12.10/8.12.10) id k77JIGKr000405 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 21:18:16 +0200 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 21:18:16 +0200 From: Enrico Weigelt To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Beta versions should be slotable Message-ID: <20060807191815.GG18220@nibiru.local> References: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA7C4A6C@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA7C4A6C@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Archives-Salt: acf54d29-c62f-4c90-9277-389a4d65852b X-Archives-Hash: 76277f687532ee748c182358d6830ae4 * Noack, Sebastian schrieb: > I like to try bleeding edge beta versions. But I hate that if I will > install for example the new firefox 2 beta via portage, it will unmerge > the current stable version. I would prefer to have a stable version for > daily work and the beta version for testing purposes at the same time on > my system. Therefore I would propose to introduce a policy, which forces > each ebuild with the suffix _alpha, _beta or _pre have to be slotable. Why not just putting alpha or beta packages in their own ebuild ? ie. firefox-BETA ? Those ebuilds should live in their own testing overlay, to keep the main tree smaller. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list