On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 09:02 -0500, Richard Alimi wrote:
> > > The reason that wasn't included is because there was no official release
> > > of it in 0.10.0. There is an SVN build for it that builds from /trunk,
> > > but I believe it is Gentoo's policy that eny SVN trunk builds must be
> > > masked (i.e., not generally available unless you specifically go in and
> > > change a config file to override it).
> >
> > kind of... you can specify various "masks" that you want to install from
> > on a system wide level, or on a package per package level. I personally
> > install from "unstable" on a system wide scale (which is more stable and
> > usable than the name suggests). Then there is "hard masked" for
> > not-working packages, and "stable" for the packages that make it through
> > unstable without issues for a while.
>
> Yes - this was exactly my point. People need to go into a config file to
> specify this.
well, yes, but the Gentoo install is all editing config files and
command line stuff. In fact, said config file anyway is a major one...
Except for that new fandangled gui installer (progress I suppose!)
> > Anyway, svn or "snapshot ebuilds" as they're called can go into either
> > stable or unstable depending on how well they work, and how old the last
> > official release was.
>
> Right. If the ebuild were to checkout from a particular revision, then I
> think it would be fine. My comment was that using the ebuild as it stands
> (which builds from the latest revision in trunk) would probably never be
> available unmasked in Portage.
ah yes, a live svn ebuild would never make it (I think there's one case
in the entire tree atm) because you can't say at any one time if its
working or not.
not arguing here, I'm just pedantic :)
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