Portage 2.2 - when will it go stable?? WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

[Tanstaafl]

On 2012-07-11 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:

Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become
stable it seems,


Can anyone comment on *why* it is taking so long? It is beginning to 
border on ridiculous - if it is ready (which I seem to recall lots of 
references to 'why are you still using 2.1??), why not just stabilize it 
already? I try really hard not to run anything unstable unless I 
absolutely have to (for obvious reasons)...

Re: Portage 2.2 - when will it go stable?? WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] Everything disappeared from world list

[Jeff Horelick]

On 11 July 2012 14:23, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
 On 2012-07-11 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:

 Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become
 stable it seems,


 Can anyone comment on *why* it is taking so long? It is beginning to border
 on ridiculous - if it is ready (which I seem to recall lots of references to
 'why are you still using 2.1??), why not just stabilize it already? I try
 really hard not to run anything unstable unless I absolutely have to (for
 obvious reasons)...


https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=210077   --- This is why it's
taking so long, there are still MANY bugs that should really be fixed.

Part of why it's taking so long for those bugs to be fixed is because
programmatic sets and preserve-libs aren't a priority, but things like
supporting new EAPIs and such are a far bigger priority.