Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Sat, 2022-02-19 at 09:54 -0600, Dale wrote: >> Howdy, >> >> I'm just going to point to the gentoo page for this but I'd like to know >> why something is in the tree if it is not available to anyone due to >> missing keywords. >> >> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-office/libreoffice > Probably just a way for the maintainers to test before releasing it to > users. Libreoffice is huge and requires a lot of cooperation from other > areas. An entry in package.mask is another (more common) way to add > something to the tree while still marking it as "not ready yet." > > >> Also, I noticed I have packages coming in from overlays or something I >> don't have installed/enabled here, if they are overlays. This is one >> recent example. >> >> root@fireball / # equery list -po firefox >> * Searching for firefox ... >> [-P-] [ ] www-client/firefox-91.6.0:esr >> [IP-] [ ] www-client/firefox-97.0.1:rapid >> root@fireball / # >> > Those are just slot names. Like EAPIs, slot names are typically > integers, but pretty much anything is technically legal. > > > >
Thanks to both for the info. Looks to me like they would test these packages in a local overlay first then move when major arches are ready. To each his/her own. I was hoping to use the more recent version and not have to update for a while. I noticed it had no "O" for overlay which is what made me think the devs had a new way to do slots. I also guessed the esr is extended service release or something to that effect and rapid is less stable and faster moving version. I seen this with another package but can't recall the name. Thanks again to both. Dale :-) :-)
