On Thursday 27 January 2005 14:25, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Okay, I've taken enough flames for this. Obviously I thought that by > electing to use -* and/or ~x86 packages I could assist testing the packages > for future promotion to gentoo stable, possibly contributing back into the > community; I did not think that I was electing to emerge broken ebuilds > that were going to take the systems down.
Well, you clearly don't understand: THRERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BEWTEEN -* AND ~x86! ~x86 are test ebuilds that may not work, but that gentoo welcomes bug reports on, so that they can be eventually changed to x86 (or removed from portage). -* are broken ebuilds. They should only be installed if you intend to watch their progress and fix them yourself. In fact, unless you are a dev (or *must* have the package *now*) you shouldn't install them because bug reports are not really appropriate. I run ~x86 on my desktop, with a mimimum of problems. It is less stable than my laptop, but that's because I want to test things out and file bug reports, if needed (hopefully, with an attached patch). My laptop is x86 with a few ~x86 packages in package.keywords that I really wanted (monodevelop and it's dependencies, bascially). My biggest problem with it is the freakin' power cable supplied by gateway falls out all the time! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
