[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 04 May 2006 05:27 pm, Walter Dnes wrote:
Gentoo ~x86 (or ~whatever) is roughly equivalant to a mix of Debian
"Testing" and "Unstable". A package may be ~ simply because it hasn't
been tested enough yet to certify as stable. Or it may be horribly
broken. Or somewhere in between. If you were comfortable running
Debian unstable, you'll be comfortable running Gentoo ~x86.
Actually, this isn't quite true. The difference between arch and ~arch
is strictly a Gentoo difference - packages aren't shifted from
package.mask to ~arch until they're considered stable by upstream.
~arch is the Gentoo testing branch: where the ebuild is refined and
where the code is patched if it breaks due to crazy C(XX)FLAGS, USE, etc.
Packages where the *code* (as opposed to the *ebuild*) is still
considered unstable and which may actually break things badly are left
in package.mask.
HTH.
Ryan
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