On 14/03/2013 01:09, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:16:07AM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote >> On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 10:24:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> A useful trick I use on my Gentoo test/dev vms is a defined set called >>> @tools. These all use a shared /etc/portage/ for consistency, so add bc >>> to the set and it is merged everywhere. This helps keep my world free of >>> clutter. >> >> I do a similar thing, I have a set called @base, the first thing I do >> after unpacking a stage 3 and setting up make.conf is emerge @base. It >> means I have everything I expect on a computer and also shortcuts some of >> the install steps. > > How are the portage-2.2.0 alphas for stability/bugs (hopefully lack > thereof)? I see alpha163 and alpha166 available. >
I find them very stable and bug-free, haven't had an issue with them since the -rc series started (that's what? 2 years ago? more?) I think Zac uses the alphas to test how well his ideas work in practice, each version numbers seems to implement one new idea at a time. Things stay in or come out based on how well they behave in the real world, so there is some feature churn but very few bugs as such. He must be doing decent testing on his end before pushing updates out :-) -- Alan McKinnon Systems Engineer^W Technician Infrastructure Services Internet Solutions +27 11 575 7585 -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
