Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:11:30 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > If everyone ran either full stable or full testing, how are > > problems that occur when one the testing packages makes it to > > stable going to be detected? By the ones running stable. :( > > So, mixed systems are just as needed as ones at full testing, > > if not more so. > > A mixed system is not stable.
Huh? You mean to say that a mixed system is likely to have hiccups? Or do you mean that a mixed system requires more work: having to adapt package.keywords every now and then? > But when you have a lot of packages in package.keywords, you're > best of switching to a full testing system, IMO. That is only because of a shortcoming of portage: if for example one has firefox at ~x86, and a new version of firefox depends on a ~x86 version of some other package, portage should be so clever as to grab that version automatically and not require the user to keyword it in /etc/portage/package.keywords. Or at least it should be possible to enable this cleverness by adding something like autokeyword to FEATURES. Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
