On 13 Apr, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 12 April 2010 16:55:38 Paul Hartman wrote: > >> I've been using portage unmasked for a very long time and don't >> remember having any portage-related problems. I'm sure there must be >> some (or else why is it still RC?) but for me the new features are >> worth the potential risk of using less-tested code. > > There was a problem with its preserved-rebuild feature for a while; > several people reported here that they were running it and being told > they still needed to run it again. > > As far as I know, that's the only thing preventing release of v2, and I > think it's been fixed anyway. >
No, I don't think so. Just recently, I had to unmerge then emerge wxpython since emerge @preserved-rebuild couldn't solve it itself. One more "buglet". When doing emerge -j <no of simultaneous processes> - which is a very useful feature on a multicore machine - sometime a package just stops to build (which is reported as failing package). Just emerge it again. So, I'd say some new features are not ready, yet, but still very useful as they are. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
