From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P9SLo-0004CW-3s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:52:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 339A6E074B; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:52:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com (mail-ey0-f181.google.com [209.85.215.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4818E074B for ; Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:52:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eyg5 with SMTP id 5so959152eyg.40 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:52:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=yjSQttNyv/jNVSWNLTvxkfjcjTMxGpr6wwWtbZweTBs=; b=kzXImyGJ5bclq8wodgwfWV4mQnBrdWH8mvt0fAw0YmZlzbiZBb9B0bPWrHth768v/e jm8wU6vAJLgiEl4FST1swu8p6aQgMOLHoJWPbjoMp4Idgbd5SSlx6hULaVBhItd2+A8v iToNqOnzTy1ZpQtPmQGsMKHjNp8WJBKRnjNzg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Bee3jV3soc9Ydzm3o8UN/nmmDhkqo+PXc0QpfrXgU/+WRqSW7zYSG6fGqGsVNP+wk9 2ZT5rpGB0QFsJeWDhsUVy5YFVRSrE2LWAJU/9FJT25CcFNzfru2GxgcJ0991E+cT0uK2 h8R5fq4Tvs9D1AW62imn/IRw/Wxqbh4Khkh0E= Received: by 10.213.108.75 with SMTP id e11mr71325ebp.86.1287795155352; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:52:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b52sm4052031eei.13.2010.10.22.17.52.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:52:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout --> openrc ? Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:53:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r4; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Dale References: <20101022231349.1b4ef272@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <4CC20F80.9040406@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CC20F80.9040406@gmail.com> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010230253.10972.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 77dcbad8-68cc-4ed1-9f52-568f2006ed60 X-Archives-Hash: c6bb6c42c75aed1ba6d4fdd8407f896a Apparently, though unproven, at 00:26 on Saturday 23 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:52:18 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> That was what I recalled about the openrc discussion too. It is coming > >> but just not sure when. Me, I'm not switching until it starts getting > >> closer to that time. It, like some of the newer versions of portage, > >> appears to be stable and is used by many people but is not marked > >> stable yet. Both of those sort of confuse me sometimes. > > > > You're mixing two different definitions of stable. Portage 2.2 is > > certainly reliable, but it is anything but stable with a new version > > coming out every day at the moment,. > > Well, I run unstable portage here and it seems stable and reliable to > me. I know they are adding things and fixing things pretty regular but > most packages do that anyway and a lot of them are marked as stable. > > I read somewhere that the reason some of the later versions of portage > are not stable is not because the new ones are not ready but because > they want more testing of the old versions. Not sure why that is tho. > > Dale > > :-) :-) $PORTDIR/profiles/package.mask: # Zac Medico (05 Jan 2009) # Portage 2.2 is masked due to known bugs in the # package sets and preserve-libs features. See # bug #253802 for details. >=sys-apps/portage-2.2_pre The old message for =sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc1 said something different, like "to enable further testing of the 2.1.6 series" -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com