From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E4Tej-00051V-65 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:20:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7F1IVUf004048; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:18:31 GMT Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.86]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7F18aPD000909 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2005 01:08:36 GMT Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout04/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j7F190WB004342 for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:09:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.106] (cpe001217fa060b-cm0013718c1a36.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [70.24.10.222]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j7F18uXU023261 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 14 Aug 2005 18:09:00 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) In-Reply-To: <20050814233533.2ca0c7b1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> References: <6C3F87F2-A3F1-47A5-A18E-A3632967B781@mac.com> <42FFA5AF.3070904@gmail.com> <20050815093712.EFBD.NICK@rout.co.nz> <20050814233533.2ca0c7b1@hactar.digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-3--267952954 Message-Id: From: Paul Hoy Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:08:55 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) X-Archives-Salt: fec3ca86-169c-4405-aa15-e865f325a0fc X-Archives-Hash: 135513aac4ef59c6afd6a2ba49e6afff --Apple-Mail-3--267952954 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Aug 14, 2005, at 6:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > > >> Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast >> through >> and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it >> does >> not constitute a release of a recent version IMHO. >> > > They're not "unstable", they are "testing", and that only applies > to the > ebuild itself, not the upstream package. If you want the latest > versions, > you need to run ~arch. Any distro that puts brand new packages > (with the > exception of security fixes) into its stable package tree has > thrown all > concept of QA out of the window. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick > > Top Oxymorons Number 30: Business ethics > Hi Neil, Is there a way to explicitly search for ~arch releases or do I have set the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable in make.conf and hope for the best during emerge? Paul ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable --Apple-Mail-3--267952954 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
On Aug 14, 2005, = at 6:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 09:38:28 +1200, Nick Rout = wrote:

=
Unstable does = not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through
and through, but plonking something in portage with = a ~ beside it does
not constitute a release of = a recent version IMHO.


They're not = "unstable", they are "testing", and that only applies to the
ebuild itself, not the upstream package. If you want = the latest versions,
you need to run ~arch. Any = distro that puts brand new packages (with the
exception of security fixes) into its stable package = tree has thrown all
concept of QA out of the = window.


--=A0
Neil = Bothwick

Top Oxymorons Number 30: Business ethics


Hi = Neil,

Is there a = way to explicitly search for ~arch releases or do I have=A0set the = ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable in make.conf and hope for the best during = emerge?

Paul


ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable


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