Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:04:30 +0100 From: Alistair Sutton <alistair.sutton@gmail.com> To: "Scott I. Remick" <scott@sremick.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.12 available for FreeBSD Message-ID: <fa8f059505091407041d921f61@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <pan.2005.09.14.13.37.45.918767@sremick.net> References: <1126421475.56750.45.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <pan.2005.09.14.06.04.18.63803@sremick.net> <fa8f05950509140526672940fe@mail.gmail.com> <pan.2005.09.14.13.37.45.918767@sremick.net>
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On 14/09/05, Scott I. Remick <scott@sremick.net> wrote: > I guess what I'm trying to get a handle on is whether it's safe for me to > go to 2.12 :) If Marcus feels it works and it's essentially "done", he > typically puts it into the "stable" module on his CVS repository. If 2.12 > is still in "devel" that'd make me think it's not quite done cooking and > there's still work to be done. The other thing that makes me nervous is > dependencies to other things in devel that could be in a raw, unstable > state that end up being pulled in too as a result. >=20 > Sorry to be so paranoid... this just seems different from past times when > I could just pull in the "stable" module w/ marcusmerge and be done with > it. Seems like this is just another form of "ports freeze" so I'm not > clear on why 2.12 would still be in "devel" if Marcus really thinks it's > ready... If you read the announcement that was made I think that Tinderbox packages were mentioned. If you're worried about pulling in some other devel ports by using the tree maybe it's worth checking the packages out? The only reason I'm waiting to do the upgrade is that I don't have enough time yet. Al --=20 GPG/PGP: http://www.no-dns-yet.org.uk/~everlone/pubkey.gpg
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