[gentoo-user] Why WordPress is masked?
I was recently told that I will have to use WordPress to do some translation job. After emerge --search wordpress, I have found that this package is currently masked (at least for amd64 architecture). The same says https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/WordPress Earlier, in this mailing list, I was told that I can see the reasons for masking a package in .../profile/package.mask file. However, looking into it, I have not found there the wordpress package at all. Does anybody know, why wordpress package is currently masked and how dangerous it is to unmask it as the wikipage above advises. Moreover, I am interested if there are any substitutions for the wordpress package available in Gentoo. By a quick search, I have found vimpress plugin for vim. Does anybody know if it is a decent substitution for wordpress? Thank you.
Re: [gentoo-user] Why WordPress is masked?
Hi, On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 16:54:12 +0200 Gevisz wrote: After emerge --search wordpress, I have found that this package is currently masked (at least for amd64 architecture). The same says https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/WordPress Earlier, in this mailing list, I was told that I can see the reasons for masking a package in .../profile/package.mask file. However, looking into it, I have not found there the wordpress package at all. Does anybody know, why wordpress package is currently masked and how dangerous it is to unmask it as the wikipage above advises. Wordpress is not masked on my ~x86 and ~amd64 boxes. Probably you have stable amd64 setup. Unmasking is generally safe in such cases, though if you'll mix stable and unstable packages too much you may have unforeseen consequences. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko pgpdKbIpCtX_5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Why WordPress is masked?
On 19/02/2014 16:54, Gevisz wrote: I was recently told that I will have to use WordPress to do some translation job. After emerge --search wordpress, I have found that this package is currently masked (at least for amd64 architecture). The same says https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/WordPress www-apps/wordpress is not hardmasked. It is marked ~arch, something entirely different. The correct description for this package is keyworded unstable Earlier, in this mailing list, I was told that I can see the reasons for masking a package in .../profile/package.mask file. That file does not document unstable keywords However, looking into it, I have not found there the wordpress package at all. Does anybody know, why wordpress package is currently masked and how dangerous it is to unmask it as the wikipage above advises. packages are keyworded unstable because they are not yet ready for prime-time, or the maintainer hasn't gotten around to marking it stable yet, or no-one has submitted a stabilization request to b.g.o yet We don't know which of these apply Just add www-apps/wordpress to package.accept_keywords and emerge it. You will soon find out if it suits your needs and it won't eat your kittens. Moreover, I am interested if there are any substitutions for the wordpress package available in Gentoo. No, that does not make sense. The only thing that works like wordpress is wordpress. If you need to use wordpress then install wordpress. There exists other blogging software of course but they are not wordpress. By a quick search, I have found vimpress plugin for vim. Does anybody know if it is a decent substitution for wordpress? I doubt it does what you apear to think it does. vimpress is a wordpress editing tool running in the vim editor. It connects to a wordpress blog and let's you do the edits in vim instead of some other editing tool. But you still need to have access to a wordpress blog for it to work Thank you. Are you certain you need to run the wordpress software locally? Will you not instead be editing a blog hosted elsewhere? -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Why WordPress is masked?
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:18:49 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/02/2014 16:54, Gevisz wrote: I was recently told that I will have to use WordPress to do some translation job. After emerge --search wordpress, I have found that this package is currently masked (at least for amd64 architecture). The same says https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/WordPress www-apps/wordpress is not hardmasked. It is marked ~arch, something entirely different. The correct description for this package is keyworded unstable Earlier, in this mailing list, I was told that I can see the reasons for masking a package in .../profile/package.mask file. That file does not document unstable keywords However, looking into it, I have not found there the wordpress package at all. Does anybody know, why wordpress package is currently masked and how dangerous it is to unmask it as the wikipage above advises. packages are keyworded unstable because they are not yet ready for prime-time, or the maintainer hasn't gotten around to marking it stable yet, or no-one has submitted a stabilization request to b.g.o yet We don't know which of these apply Just add www-apps/wordpress to package.accept_keywords and emerge it. You will soon find out if it suits your needs and it won't eat your kittens. Moreover, I am interested if there are any substitutions for the wordpress package available in Gentoo. No, that does not make sense. The only thing that works like wordpress is wordpress. If you need to use wordpress then install wordpress. There exists other blogging software of course but they are not wordpress. By a quick search, I have found vimpress plugin for vim. Does anybody know if it is a decent substitution for wordpress? I doubt it does what you apear to think it does. vimpress is a wordpress editing tool running in the vim editor. It connects to a wordpress blog and let's you do the edits in vim instead of some other editing tool. But you still need to have access to a wordpress blog for it to work And to get access to the blog, I need WordPress, right? Are you certain you need to run the wordpress software locally? No, I still have to ask... Will you not instead be editing a blog hosted elsewhere? And if so, can I get with only vimpress instead? Sorry, for may be stupid questions and thank you for answering.
Re: [gentoo-user] Why WordPress is masked?
On 19/02/2014 23:38, Gevisz wrote: I doubt it does what you apear to think it does. vimpress is a wordpress editing tool running in the vim editor. It connects to a wordpress blog and let's you do the edits in vim instead of some other editing tool. But you still need to have access to a wordpress blog for it to work And to get access to the blog, I need WordPress, right? No. You need a browser to access the blog. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
