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 1P9Q4M-00048b-G2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:26:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2A55E07AD; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:26:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 902B8E07AD for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:26:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywa6 with SMTP id 6so1922760ywa.40 for ; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:26:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=A6oJMWurJuWapedlLshi5qk/fr4p6W7PA0HO6H5LOFQ=; b=lnHWDUYw18hWMipCTRTMm7QUW/OOJ850Su2PWO6BM6jWIm75DnahufYDgVuamav1JN nD5JDulw7HayloDN7iwy763GJcPhIGkdE92DerGDBxs+baysPQaXAW/3x+6ABQ3Cjt2R BQCl0BIyxPG+tCQMhcvQlLS5FQxe+UIjNu7H0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=nlr0OUdIFSfuyaFXk0PAorAyQXpibNUKN/hJPixnugPoyagSVt63SVxS7fXk70/4Mc lEqOwOXzKq8JpOnCARIn7FInR7JHp3BFyIA5COb0bV6TEASt73X4G9N6nSRdBcHdu8Gz vvaP5600PIr/36udtdF/qsN0t7HcY9g8k4lSo= Received: by 10.42.226.72 with SMTP id iv8mr2056677icb.116.1287786371924; Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:26:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-95-109-148.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.109.148]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w30sm1143193vcr.16.2010.10.22.15.26.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:26:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4CC20F80.9040406@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:26:08 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.14) Gecko/20101020 Gentoo/2.0.9 SeaMonkey/2.0.9 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout --> openrc ? References: <20101022122901.6a54ef4c@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <0B6D45A7-8D0E-45AB-8578-FC8F265B8C49@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <201010222232.21958.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4CC1F982.8030009@gmail.com> <20101022231349.1b4ef272@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101022231349.1b4ef272@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: de34a0aa-2136-40e1-8851-e42b30221516 X-Archives-Hash: 4f17a390cdcc262d233a1e2487b41748 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 :-) :-)