* Noack, Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: <snip>
> 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. Why not just putting alpha or beta packages in their own ebuild ? ie. firefox-BETA ? Those ebuilds should live in their own testing overlay, to keep the main tree smaller. cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
