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 1Qy43l-0008TC-PC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:47:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0288D21C1E2; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:47:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEB2821C0A6 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:46:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C3B21B409F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:46:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -5.002 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.002 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.597, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wcvh4h+H7-5f for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:46:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 678C41B4034 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:46:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Qy42R-00074a-CL for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:46:15 +0200 Received: from adsl-69-234-180-210.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.180.210]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:46:15 +0200 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-180-210.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:46:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How do slots work? Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:45:55 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20110829085112.GA2908@acm.acm> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-180-210.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110822 Thunderbird/6.0 In-Reply-To: <20110829085112.GA2908@acm.acm> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5bd2f2fb922295453483a8b167df44e2 On 08/29/2011 01:51 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > What I really want to do is to try out Gnome 3, to see if it's like what > people say it is, but without endangering my current Gnome 2.32.1. This is the fastest and easiest way to try it: http://gnome3.org/tryit.html After I tried it I decided quickly that I'm content to wait until it's really stable on gentoo. At this point I'd say it's a waste of time to try to install from the overlay unless you want to help debug it.