From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from bigglesworth.mail.be.easynet.net (bigglesworth.mail.be.easynet.net [212.100.160.67]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82ABC245C0 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 02:28:00 -0600 (CST) Received: from 213-193-176-77.adsl.easynet.be ([213.193.176.77] helo=theleaf.be) by bigglesworth.mail.be.easynet.net with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16IQSO-0003pE-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 09:27:37 +0100 Message-ID: <3C26E6FB.6010600@theleaf.be> Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 09:27:39 +0100 From: Geert Bevin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for kde3 beta etc. References: <0GOR009629L95F@mxout2.netvision.net.il> <0GOR009FXD2DN7@mxout2.netvision.net.il> <1009115080.8779.0.camel@zoidberg> <0GOS00FF0WQ2SE@mxout2.netvision.net.il> <1009148900.708.2.camel@zoidberg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developer discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 064b9457-b05d-4a07-8321-e1df525d0502 X-Archives-Hash: f14cf89e61eae54bff7dd391e0b5a439 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. -- Geert Bevin the Leaf sprl/bvba "Use what you need" Pierre Theunisstraat 1/47 http://www.theleaf.be 1030 Brussels gbevin@theleaf.be Tel & Fax +32 2 241 19 98