On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:29:53 +0200 "Noack, Sebastian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I like to try bleeding edge beta versions. But I hate that if I will | install for example the new firefox 2 beta via portage, it will | unmerge the current stable version. I would prefer to have a stable | version for daily work and the beta version for testing purposes at | the same time on my system. Therefore I would propose to introduce a | policy, which forces each ebuild with the suffix _alpha, _beta or | _pre have to be slotable.
Too inflexible. Not all upstreams use sane versioning schemes. Now, if we had slot deps, encouraging wider use of slots along with trivial little eselect modules to handle the symlinks might be a good idea, but requiring it is silly. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
