Re: [gentoo-dev] Beta versions should be slotable

[Mike Doty <kingtaco@gentoo.org>]

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Noack, Sebastian wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> Best Regards
> Sebastian Noack
> 
Not feasable.  You have 2 possible ways of doing it though. one is to
use a chroot to test these things, and the other is to take a quickpkg
of the stable version and emerge -k when you're done testing the
bleeding edge stuff.

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Gentoo Developer Relations
Gentoo Recruitment Lead
Gentoo Infrastructure
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