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.
