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 1GA5IS-0005kX-4x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 07 Aug 2006 13:37:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k77Da3BR027899; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:36:03 GMT Received: from SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local (port-195-158-141-68.static.isionline-dialin.de [195.158.141.68]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k77DWV99020056 for ; Mon, 7 Aug 2006 13:32:31 GMT Content-class: urn:content-classes:message 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" Subject: [gentoo-dev] Beta versions should be slotable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:29:53 +0200 Message-ID: <7B97065F451A23458ED0C63B4CA5A2EA7C4A6C@SRV-EXCHANGE.AUTOonline.local> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Beta versions should be slotable thread-index: Aca6Jawiqx6BDkwKQXuFlsL/Gz0/xg== From: "Noack, Sebastian" To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k77DWV99020056 X-Archives-Salt: ee3397f8-faae-4c85-ae67-11b0bf4569fe X-Archives-Hash: bf26a06f41d5d7224fa6eb78ae8568da 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list