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From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:15:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vpwt3yj.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200906071738.52416.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (Alan McKinnon's message of "Sun, 7 Jun 2009 17:38:52 +0200")

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:

> The only reason it's masked is to force as many users as possible to use an 
> earlier version so that it "can receive more testing and get better bug 
> reports", and that was done by Zac himself. There is not a single technical or 
> code quality reason for it to be masked, it's purely a human issue

Though I seem to remember that at the time portage 2.2_rc was masked it
was stated to only be a temporary measure to force more people to test
2.1.6 and that the mask would be removed when 2.1.6 went stable - which
it has been for some while.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-07 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-06 12:03 [gentoo-user] can fix preserved-rebuild William Kenworthy
2009-06-06 16:23 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-06-06 17:23   ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-06 21:10     ` walt
2009-06-06 21:37       ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-06 21:50         ` Dale
2009-06-07  1:28     ` William Kenworthy
2009-06-07 15:02       ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-07 15:21         ` walt
2009-06-07 15:38           ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-07 16:15             ` Graham Murray [this message]
2009-06-07 16:11       ` Neil Bothwick
2009-06-08 12:25         ` William Kenworthy
2009-06-08 12:32           ` William Kenworthy
2009-06-08 12:53           ` Neil Bothwick

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