Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-24 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 22 May 2009 12:38:34 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 22 May 2009 07:40:28 -0300, Jorge Morais wrote: maybe you should just run a ~arch system. I want a reliable system. Isn't ~arch quite less reliable than arch ? Not in my experience. ~arch only means the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:41:22 -0300, Jorge Morais wrote: Or maybe I should just stick to all-stable, so as to not be different, and keep package.keywords for those packages where I really want a new feature (like packages with no stable versions)? If you want so many up to date packages,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-22 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 22 May 2009 09:00:05 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009 21:41:22 -0300, Jorge Morais wrote: Or maybe I should just stick to all-stable, so as to not be different, and keep package.keywords for those packages where I really want a new feature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 May 2009 07:40:28 -0300, Jorge Morais wrote: maybe you should just run a ~arch system. I want a reliable system. Isn't ~arch quite less reliable than arch ? Not in my experience. ~arch only means the builds are in testing, the software is as reliable as upstream makes it. You may

[gentoo-user] How to manage package.keywords for greater system reliability?

2009-05-21 Thread Jorge Morais
Hi. I used to think it was safe to use ~arch packages (through package.keywords) on a stable system until I saw bug #257047 - GCC 4.3 didn't have a strict enough glibc dependency. And comment #15 in that bug report is: [...] we don't test or support half-stable half-testing