* [gentoo-user] Re: Can someone please explain to me why these bugs are duplicates?
@ 2007-02-08 1:52 99% ` Harm Geerts
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From: Harm Geerts @ 2007-02-08 1:52 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Thursday 08 February 2007, Daevid Vincent wrote:
> I run a mixed environment of stable and testing -- as do most people. Often
> I run a testing (~x86) package b/c I need a feature that isn't available
> in the stable version. I would prefer to be all stable, but life is not so
> kind in the land of Gentoo. And marking packages stable with any regularity
> seems to be an exercise in patience and nagging and bug requests and
> waiting and ...
>
> So then when I do an "emerge world", there are sometimes hundreds of
> packages. All nickel and diming me to death. Like a -r1 -r2 -r3... Or a
> v1.0.1 v1.0.2 etc. All these little incremental ones that are mostly due to
> them being in testing. I really don't give a rat's ass about them and don't
> want to spend days compiling things just for one tiny little bug fix, or an
> ebuild fix or whatever else causes a version bump.
>
> Therefore, if I could easily look and see a flag saying, "Hey! This package
> is now stable and is equal to or newer than the testing version you've got
> installed". I would be more inclined to upgrade to it, and simultaneously
> remove the /etc/portage/package.mask entry so I can therefore continue to
> be stable until the next "must have" feature in some package.
Instead of keywording a package you should keyword a specific version
(including a revision if you will)
This way there will be no upgrades unless that package goes stable.
The tools are there, you just haven't used them correctly :)
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