Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings

2007-12-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:42:38 -0800 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've made these assertions about confusion and breakage, and I would like to understand the reasoning behind them. I don't understand how it would be different than any other SLOT, because they're already a string.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings

2007-12-11 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Dec 11, 2007 9:11 AM, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:42:38 -0800 Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've made these assertions about confusion and breakage, and I would like to understand the reasoning behind them. [...] For my reasoning... just

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings

2007-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 00:26 Mon 10 Dec , Robin H. Johnson wrote: What I've got for my Xorg testing setup, is foo--rX, with a number of different -X values that I just select from via package.{un,}mask while testing - this saves altering everything else in the tree to pick some package that has a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings

2007-12-10 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Dec 10, 2007 10:21 AM, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 00:26 Mon 10 Dec , Robin H. Johnson wrote: What I've got for my Xorg testing setup, is foo--rX, with a number of different -X values that I just select from via package.{un,}mask while testing - this saves

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings

2007-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 10:34 Mon 10 Dec , Santiago M. Mola wrote: On Dec 10, 2007 10:21 AM, Donnie Berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 00:26 Mon 10 Dec , Robin H. Johnson wrote: What I've got for my Xorg testing setup, is foo--rX, with a number of different -X values that I just select from via