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From: Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 3
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 18:02:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080527180229.1b62c13f.nicolas.s-dev@laposte.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080527125642.4d48b12e@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk>

Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> a écrit:

> It's better to use ~cat/pkg-verion instead of =. Testing ebuilds are,
> by their nature, potentially buggy, and updated more often than those
> in stable. By using =, you guarantee that you get the first, most
> bug-prone, release, and mask out any ebuild updates. ~ means you stick
> with that version, until a later hits stable, but allow ebuild updates
> and security patches.

Thanks for the tip! I will apply it.

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Nicolas Sebrecht

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-27 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-27  9:45 [gentoo-user] Firefox 3 Alastair Irving
2008-05-27 11:12 ` Andrew Gaydenko
2008-05-27 11:12 ` Mike Mazur
2008-05-27 11:56   ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-27 16:02     ` Nicolas Sebrecht [this message]
2008-05-27 11:16 ` Justin
2008-05-27 15:11   ` James
2008-05-27 12:24 ` Bewater

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