Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 24/07/2013 12:00, Pavel Volkov wrote:
> What is the status or portage 2.2?
> It takes so long to get out of alpha. Has anyone here had any serious
> problems with it? I've been using it for a a few years without any
> accidents. Just wondering if I should be prepared for the worst.
> I also remember reading in Changelog that 2.2 remains masked until 2.1
> gets enough testing, that was ages ago.
> 
> It initially suported set arithmetic (you could writes expressions like
> "@set1+@set2/@set3"), I wonder why it was dropped :)

you've been using it for years, it has gone through 186 alpha versions
and before that just over 100 pre versions. You never had a problem with
it. Neither has anyone else really.

So what are you worried about again?

Just pretend that "alpha" isn't in the name and it isn't masked -
effectively that is actual status - last I heard from Zac there is one
or two odd edge cases that still aren't 100% right, but few people ever
run into them. You are highly unlikely to be one of those few people.


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Alan McKinnon
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