Re: [gentoo-user] When a package is marked as stable or not?

2018-08-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 15:24:35 BST Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hi Rich, > > Thanks a lot for your explanation. It’s a bit clearer for me now :) On a practical level you can keyword the ~arch version of the package, or to carry on with your life as is at present add: --exclude app-office/libr

Re: [gentoo-user] When a package is marked as stable or not?

2018-08-22 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi Rich, Thanks a lot for your explanation. It’s a bit clearer for me now :) -- alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] When a package is marked as stable or not?

2018-08-22 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 8:02 AM Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > I’m a little curious about the way a package is considered as stable or > ~arch. > Packages always start out in ~arch and sometimes become stable. A package version CAN be made stable if: 1. It has been in ~arch for 30 days (exceptions ma

[gentoo-user] When a package is marked as stable or not?

2018-08-22 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, I’m a little curious about the way a package is considered as stable or ~arch. For exemple, app-office/libreoffice-bin is tagged stable but breaks updates on my system since weeks; but on the other hand net-misc/bird is ~arch but I never had major issues with hit (either running and building