Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: guidline to set a timeline of removal of ebuild from stable tree

2007-06-13 Thread banym tuxaner
Hi, my opinion is to make the sync machanism more intelligent in this way. I don't want to have a tree with 2 stable versions or old versions of ebuilds. My idea is to let the actual(old) installed ebuild version untouched so you are able to downgrade after an update, and you are although able to

[gentoo-dev] Re: guidline to set a timeline of removal of ebuild from stable tree

2007-06-12 Thread Duncan
cilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:59:42 +0200: > On Jun 12, 2007, at 12:53 PM, cilly wrote: > >> Of course, there are bugs in every version. Sometimes a user must be >> able to choose which bug is more problematic, i.e. the bug in the new

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: guidline to set a timeline of removal of ebuild from stable tree

2007-06-12 Thread cilly
On Jun 12, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: That is not by purpose. Most people clean-up a package when stabilisation round has been done. So I must say clarify my first statement: I think it is a good idea to have old stable versions in the tree, but that should be the choice

[gentoo-dev] Re: guidline to set a timeline of removal of ebuild from stable tree

2007-06-12 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > One thing that I noticed is that in many cases there are multiple > testing versions of a package available, and one stable version. So, > if you run unstable you can pick and choose, but if you're running > stable (which in theory should be the target audi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: guidline to set a timeline of removal of ebuild from stable tree

2007-06-12 Thread cilly
On Jun 12, 2007, at 11:49 AM, Christian Faulhammer wrote: PS: other topics to be discussed `Not to modify ebuilds which are already in the tree... even if masked` what do you think? Explain please. I will start a new topic on that. cec -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Re: guidline to set a timeline of removal of ebuild from stable tree

2007-06-12 Thread Christian Faulhammer
cilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What do you think? I agree with that. > PS: other topics to be discussed `Not to modify ebuilds which are > already in the tree... even if masked` what do you think? Explain please. -- http://www.gentoo.org/ http://www.faulhammer.org/ http://www.gnupg.org/ si