On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:56:47 -0600
"James Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> This looks good on the surface, Chris, but what happens in the case
> where somebody wants to use the Release tree, but also wants (or
> needs) one or more packages from the Live tree, and doesn't want to
> switch completely over to the live tree?  If I understand what you
> want to do correctly, the Release tree would include only stable
> packages.  Other packages wouldn't just be masked, they would be
> completely unavailable to anybody using that tree.
> 
> I like the idea of having a stable p.mask much better, which says
> "profile" to me.  Any thoughts on a special profile just for releases?

Sounds like a perfect situation to use a package manager with true
multiple repository support.

-Steve

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