Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings

2007-12-11 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Dec 11, 2007 9:11 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:42:38 -0800 > Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You've made these assertions about confusion and breakage, and I > > would like to understand the reasoning behind them. > > [...] For my reason

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings

2007-12-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:42:38 -0800 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You've made these assertions about confusion and breakage, and I > would like to understand the reasoning behind them. I don't > understand how it would be different than any other SLOT, because > they're already a stri

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings

2007-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 10:34 Mon 10 Dec , Santiago M. Mola wrote: > On Dec 10, 2007 10:21 AM, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 00:26 Mon 10 Dec , Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > > What I've got for my Xorg testing setup, is foo--rX, with a number > > > of different -X values that I just select

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings

2007-12-10 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Dec 10, 2007 10:21 AM, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 00:26 Mon 10 Dec , Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > What I've got for my Xorg testing setup, is foo--rX, with a number > > of different -X values that I just select from via package.{un,}mask > > while testing - this saves

Re: [gentoo-dev] Handling branch strings

2007-12-10 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 00:26 Mon 10 Dec , Robin H. Johnson wrote: > What I've got for my Xorg testing setup, is foo--rX, with a number > of different -X values that I just select from via package.{un,}mask > while testing - this saves altering everything else in the tree to pick > some package that has a diffe