On Monday 13 September 2010 21:00:42 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/13/2010 09:45 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > >> [...] > > > > I wouldn't expect people to run a Gentoo system with all packages on > > unstable. I tend to only select specific packages as unstable when I > > really need that version. > > Usually the best "stability" is reached by running either full stable or > full testing (aka "unstable"). Mixing usually makes things worse. I > used to run a mixed system, but at some point it was clear to me that > this fscks things up quite often due to package versions whether ~arch > packages breaking with arch ones.
This is true, but not all packages I want are in stable, this forces me to unmask these. I also don't always want to wait for packages to become stable. What I currently have in "/etc/portage/package.keywords is: =games-strategy/x2-1.4.05 ~amd64 =games-strategy/x3-2.5.01 ~amd64 =app-emulation/virtualbox-bin-3.2.8 ~amd64 =app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-3.2.8 ~amd64 These don't have a large set of additional requirements. If they did, I wouldn't have upgraded to these. I also had "qt-creator" in there, but that one has become stable since. I'm still not clear how versions can be made to be marked "stable". -- Joost
