On Oct 24, 2007, at 13:19, Stefan Bruda wrote:
What amazes me is that every time GNOME is being updated a whole
bunch of
problems appear. For one thing dependencies need to be recompiled
quite
often (doable by hand only!). Some compilation errors are also
invariably
present. I am wondering why do I need to upgrade a stable GNOME
installation to what always turns out to be an unstable GNOME, not
ready
for prime time. I would not do that personally, except that the port
system asks me to do so. At least in this respect a branching into
stable
and development is sorely needed, as is a dependency rebuild utility.
Nobody forces you to upgrade any port, or any other software on your
machine, for that matter. You can choose to upgrade, or not. That
being said, new versions should be better than old ones. If you find
problems with new versions, please file tickets.
How would splitting the ports tree into stable and unstable help?
Specifically, if we declare our current ports tree "unstable", by
what mechanism does software get to the "stable" branch? Who decides
what is stable and when? We currently have no information about how
many of our ports even build currently, and of course that varies by
OS and platform.
_______________________________________________
macports-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
