On Tuesday, November 11, 2014 06:26:02 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > I thought gentoo would only give you versions of software that were > considered mainstream upstream, that the ~ was only for the ebuilds. > > J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > On Monday, November 10, 2014 08:06:50 AM cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Then they should not change the catalog version -- what is that, anyway? > > > > You are using a Beta-version. Those are under development and NOT suited > > for production. > > If you use a beta-version of any software package, you run the risk of > > loosing your data. > > I am not surprised that the layout of the on-disk storage changes between > > beta versions while the devs try to implement new functionality. > > You might even have been running with an incompatible combination in the > > previous beta. > > > > -- > > Joost > >
Please don't top-post. The "~" is for the actual software. The ebuilds themselves, considering they are quite small, are generally bug-free. -- Joost
