From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0eZf-0001OE-AD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:57:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ACA14E0190; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.188]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBE2E0190 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:57:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id u5so608953tia.10 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:57:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to :user-agent; bh=xOdvAQbEQi2znY01FDyJycIKEWbqYiwmM7DaBAZlUpw=; b=pVXPObP74X9J42L/76vFGf7FBZ7yKOFYyxvRek/6jnKjDB1EPl95y2zfcHQCtEs6D/ zzYYnZC3goVsk9AussCHhaS339x9Aq/K2hrRrRyKOyFduBAFNeFGSXDkqn8LmKRNW9Gr 1A/FFZQDY3z0U3Sa17Z9qDHa5loiDsfJYzvKQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=nvJZAzqQo4famCphPSZA6NXBEhTSyiKk5b1s/r/2wmdnr9eoIP0AXumuc0Ea0RDRnn mEdub8X12pVzV1gSXP5arTWhGCyDqP5bBP+20mlmVb925F4cbrj4NdGqQWziNrDx51pY /UxUVx07dN7TcCLUybWPpw0QxUpnbuyxzpsb0= Received: by 10.110.105.10 with SMTP id d10mr12644400tic.2.1226591853847; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:57:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([59.93.240.176]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b4sm1254219tic.2.2008.11.13.07.57.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:57:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:35:15 +0530 From: Michael Moore To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block Message-ID: <20081113160515.GA24127@beastie.linwin> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <79e3aefb0811122338j19e22e42m43ae586c47d4a58b@mail.gmail.com> <20081113080116.2cec324f@digimed.co.uk> <79e3aefb0811130013o90f87bbh3f29829a801d000d@mail.gmail.com> <20081113091444.53dce45b@digimed.co.uk> <20081113114029.GB13362@ultras> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081113114029.GB13362@ultras> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8caea0b2-b7c6-4f52-bd89-8c39111c7b6e X-Archives-Hash: cfe4e545c4ec8d6af686b75b1d0749d1 On 12:40 Thu 13 Nov , Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: >=20 > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:14:44AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: >=20 > > Some of the testing ebuilds require = a > > later portage >=20 > Why ? >=20 > I'm running a mixed system here with sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 without > any problem=B9. What kind of changes in ebuilds explains the use of por= tage > v2.2 ? Is there a caution somewhere ? Yes, the caution will appear for a package that needs EAPI2. For example, latest ebuild of smplayer(IIRC) and KDE-4 need it. > I don't really like the idea of running a testing portage version on > some systems. Well, if you run a mixed system it should not be much trouble. Works fine here, have been using it for a couple of weeks. Also, the automatic block handling feature of the testing vesion is worth trying. --=20 Regards, Michael Moore About *NIX: If its not fun, why do it?