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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:50:58
Message-Id: CAG2jQ8jcekgpkw6aKE_tm1ZptK8U6nryhMcQpa88cXF7bYLiEg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles by Matt Turner
1 On 21 August 2013 16:32, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:04 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status.
6 >>
7 >> I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords
8 >>
9 >> - s390
10 >> - sh
11 >> - ia64
12 >> - alpha
13 >> - m68k
14 >> - sparc
15 >
16 > I want some level between "stable and completely supported" and "loses
17 > all its stable keywords.", at least for alpha.
18 >
19 > Is switching their profiles to dev the way to do that?
20 >
21
22 Is there an alternative? afaik a profile can be either stable,dev or
23 exp. I can't see how we can implement something between
24 stable and dev. And what would that represent? It may or may not be
25 stable? If this is the case, then I believe ~arch is more preferred.
26
27 --
28 Regards,
29 Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
30 http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>