"Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hk...@gentoo.org> posted 4a22682a.1050...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Sun, 31 May 2009 13:21:14 +0200:
> Duncan wrote: >> For leaf packages [-1] serves as a sort of test install. >> Experimental installs and their deps typically sit in the >> --depclean list for anything from a few minutes to a few days, >> until I decide whether I want to keep or remove them. > I think this is an interesting use-case. It would be very simple to > handle it by introducing an additional file that the package manager > would use to record the packages that are installed on trial-basis. Interesting idea. -1 is working well enough for me here I hadn't even thought of adding a proper trialware list. But I could see it being quite useful for those who don't know portage well enough to realize that -1 for a leaf package effectively does make it trialware. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
