From: "Matthew Walker" <mwalker@kydance.net>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo "stable" going in wrong direction ?
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 13:46:01 -0700 (MST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4132.216.190.203.130.1040071561.squirrel@squirrelmail.kydance.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0212161537410.22911-100000@cerberus.localhost>
Jon Portnoy said:
>
> On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Maik Schreiber wrote:
>
> [snip]
>>
>> So again, there's no point in masking a package "unstable" just because
>> its dependencies are "unstable".
>>
>> --
>> Maik Schreiber, Gentoo Linux Developer
>> http://www.gentoo.org
>> mailto:blizzy@gentoo.org
>>
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>> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
>>
>
>
> Er? If the dependencies are marked unstable and the package isn't, nobody
> (or nobody only using stable keywords, I should say) can install it unless
> the dependencies are marked stable...
>
True. But as soon as the dependencies get marked stable, they /will/ be able
to install it.
Also, in this case, the unstable dependency was purely an optional dependency.
> --
> Jon Portnoy
>
>
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-15 12:56 [gentoo-dev] Gentoo "stable" going in wrong direction ? Rainer Groesslinger
2002-12-15 18:43 ` Saverio Vigni
2002-12-15 18:03 ` Maik Schreiber
2002-12-16 18:30 ` foser
2002-12-16 20:34 ` Maik Schreiber
2002-12-16 20:38 ` Jon Portnoy
2002-12-16 20:43 ` Maik Schreiber
2002-12-16 20:46 ` Matthew Walker [this message]
2002-12-16 20:50 ` [gentoo-dev] Gentoo "stable" " Maik Schreiber
2002-12-16 20:50 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo "stable" " Martin Schlemmer
2002-12-16 21:04 ` Maik Schreiber
2002-12-16 21:05 ` Martin Schlemmer
2002-12-17 1:05 ` foser
2002-12-17 0:26 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo "stable" " Matthew Walker
2002-12-17 1:47 ` foser
2002-12-17 0:56 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo &quot;stable&quot; " Matthew Walker
2002-12-17 10:25 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo "stable" " Maik Schreiber
2002-12-17 14:12 ` foser
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