Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.26 stable?

[Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>]

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 00:01 +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: 
> Without any ranting ... I feel kind of stupid waiting for GNOME 2.26
> going stable within the gentoo-tree while GNOME 2.28 is out now at
> gnome.org.
> 
> Maybe I am too conservative here and could already use 2.26 for a while
> by unmasking lots of packages or doing *something* ...
> 
> Not that I really miss something, it's just that I wonder ... and I
> would like to explore any new features etc ...
> 
> The question:
> 
> Should I wait for bug 263083 to be done?
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263083
> 
> Or is there a "safe enough, stable enough" way to get gnome-2.26 onto my
> amd64-desktop without crashing my main workstation every few days?

I haven't found any problems with and I've been running it since it's
been in the tree.  I think most of the problems are banged out when it's
in the overlay so by the time the packages make it to the tree they've
already been tested somewhat.

I've found the easiest way to run a suite of packages marked testing is
to go ahead and put yourself in the testing tree.  It's easier to mask
packages than to unmask testing ones (even though there are tools now
that supposedly help with that) and testing really isn't that unstable.
If/when there are problems (e.g. cups 1.4.1) the workaround is easy:
report a bug if applicable, mask the offending package and downgrade to
the last version that worked.  So come on in. The water's warm :)

-a