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On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:24:41 -0600 Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o> |
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| However, I don't believe that ~arch should be used for ebuilds |
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| that one _knows_ have broken functionality. For such cases we |
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| have package.mask. |
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Indeed. It's in the developer docs and it's in the quiz. And yet... |
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http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/hollow/2005/03/14/apache_dithering |
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> I can understand that breaking the system isn't a very good idea and |
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> people will complain, but this does not count for the testing branch. |
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*sigh* Er, no. If you *know* it's broken, don't stick it in ~arch. If |
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it has no known issues, but hasn't been widely tested, then ~arch is |
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fine, but not if it's completely h0rked. |
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For how long have these people been developers and who were their |
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mentors? I'm starting to think that this wasn't a simple mistake -- |
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rather, that it's a complete misunderstanding of what the different |
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KEYWORDS levels mean... |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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