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 1RVOfB-0007vq-Fs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:28:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F3AA21C04C; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75A3821C076 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:26:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ghbg18 with SMTP id g18so2412020ghb.40 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:26:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; 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; bh=ds0KcatJkLF4EOaDA1X4oDI5HyN/BfakAa6F5NG7M00=; b=Xh7UpkNeZeof+MlmGQFQQnlYrSv+9lhiIIz8LHgmhD6dD12UTgCyWY+gxYga5ZuDlH a8X24r8TaDRO2BcrgsF3g58DFYQ6005yUOJB4x9FUlHvrirkeEPpw74P6U2woVjHefuc zueYgLFoTiyxug05Nh+0pxXtvTIKFjRDDTkRs= Received: by 10.236.103.197 with SMTP id f45mr65030112yhg.90.1322576781936; Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:26:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-115-63.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.115.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i4sm47127785yhk.21.2011.11.29.06.26.19 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:26:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4ED4EB89.5020307@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:26:17 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111022 Firefox/7.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.4.1 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] Google Talk and 9999 versions References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ccc463fb-b0e9-4057-9874-1c452dee3d14 X-Archives-Hash: 8e28fadf2d3052b553cc6359e0abbf56 Michael Mol wrote: > on my partial ~amd64 system, I have googletalk-plugin installed, and > it serves me well. On my new box (also partial ~amd64, but far more in > the stable realm than unstable realm), I tried to emerge > googletalk-plugin, and it's masked. It's also a '9999' version > package. I vaguely recall that '9999' packages are special somehow. > How is that? > > I think those are called the live builds. Basically, they are not tested much and are really close to falling off the bleeding edge. I rarely mess with those. There is a google-talkplugin-2.5.6.0 that is not live but keyworded. If it was me, I would at least try that version first. It is likely tested a bit more, not going to change so often and be stable as it gets in the unstable branch of the tree. If that fails, go back to the older version. If neither works, then I would try to 9999 build. I'd also cross my fingers for good measure. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!