On 12:40 Thu 13 Nov , Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:14:44AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Some of the testing ebuilds require a > > later portage > > Why ? > > I'm running a mixed system here with sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 without > any problem¹. What kind of changes in ebuilds explains the use of portage > v2.2 ? Is there a caution somewhere ?
Yes, the caution will appear for a package that needs EAPI2. For example, latest ebuild of smplayer(IIRC) and KDE-4 need it. > I don't really like the idea of running a testing portage version on > some systems. Well, if you run a mixed system it should not be much trouble. Works fine here, have been using it for a couple of weeks. Also, the automatic block handling feature of the testing vesion is worth trying. -- Regards, Michael Moore <mikem.unet(at)gmail.com> About *NIX: If its not fun, why do it?
