Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for kde3 beta etc.

[Geert Bevin <gbevin@theleaf.be>]

Mikael Hallendal wrote:

> I wasn't talking about just KDE, but if we put KDE in I can't see why we
> couldn't put all alpha-releases. And others might break things. So can
> KDE3 if it installs over other files (like pilot-link installing over
> glibc and stuff).
> 
> And what I'm talking about here is not that the actual code is beta
> (since very much of what is in portage now is "beta"). I'm talking about
> beta-releases (which are only meant for developers of KDE/GNOME/foo,
> depending on what kind of packages it is).



Personally I'm not so hot either that these ebuilds would propagate to 
every regular user. However, using cvs for developers to make it easy to 
test the ebuilds is of course the best way to do so. Why not put them in 
gentoo-src in a dedicated ebuild-beta directory. That way, the best of 
both world are met. Another idea might be for rsync to filter out all 
masked ebuilds. However I don't know if this would be possible. Starting 
to branch the cvs into stable / development ebuilds seems a bit too much 
of a hassle currently. After the release of 1.0 this might however be 
the best way to proceed.


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