-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Noack, Sebastian wrote: > Hi folks, > > 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. > > > Best Regards > Sebastian Noack > Not feasable. You have 2 possible ways of doing it though. one is to use a chroot to test these things, and the other is to take a quickpkg of the stable version and emerge -k when you're done testing the bleeding edge stuff.
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