On Saturday 25 February 2006 17:47, Mariusz Pękala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?': > On 2006-02-25 13:34:28 -0600 (Sat, Feb), Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > So, betas shouldn't ever be ~arch? Or is your definition of > > > > stable broad enough to include betas? > > > > > > Entirely dependent on the upstream. I've had Vim beta releases in > > > ~arch, for example, because I'm confident in upstream's ability to > > > do beta releases without screwing up. > > > > So, it's based on the collective opinion of the gentoo developers? > > Wouldn't it be better to put that in the hands of the gentoo user? > > IMHO it already is. It's called PORTAGE_OVERLAY.
Again, hard to do automatically. Wheras, if I could just set ACCEPT_UPSTREAM="BETA" I'd get all the betas. Or I could use package.upstream and but in "kde-extra/kaffeine ALPHA" and get anything assigned more than a snapshot number for that package. (Instead of manually checking after each sync to see if there's a new, masked version.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
