On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 22:50:44 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:09:14 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > >> (1) I never use testing versions of system pkgs like Glibc & > > Someone has to or they'll never get tested. > > Come on ! -- not on a production system !
Who mentioned production systems? > >> (2) I have FEATURES="buildsyspkg" in make.conf . > > It didn't help here. > > The OP was making a proposal to solve the more general problem, > incl requiring users to adopt (2) by default. No, he was stating that he had a particular setting, although Alan did suggest it as a default. Either way, it doesn't help with about the most serious package it's possible to break (I use FEATURES=buildpkg).
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