Re: [Java-gnome-developer] new Gentoo ebuilds for beta test

[Nicholas R. <ni...@mn...>]

On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:49 -0800, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> >   also, what would be nice would be to
> > have the 2.8 ebuilds in stable
> 
> Had to wait until Gnome 2.8 itself was marked stable; further, they'll
> probably want to wait a brief while but the positive test reports that
> I've had from several people here mean we can get on with it pretty
> fast.
> 
gnome 2.8 is now stable (since this weekend, i think) in portage.

> [Problem with arch masked in a case like this is that there are too many
> idiots out there who run entirely ~arch systems and so the presence of
> any 2.9 ebuilds in their portage at this point would cause it to get
> brought in - making a mess of the otherwise overall stable gnome 2.8
> present.
> 
> Which is why the next set of Gnome builds tend to be hard masked while
> they are being prepared, and stay that way until the whole stack is
> ready]
> 
yeah, didn't think about that part.  since 2.9 will/does depend on
gnome-2.9/gtk-2.5/etc those would have to be brought in somehow.  not so
nice for idiots like me who run fully ~arched systems. :-)

nick