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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:32:58
Message-Id: 52408906.6000104@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords by Alexis Ballier
1 On 09/23/2013 02:46 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
2 > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:25:40 +0300
3 > Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> profiles.desc status is about how repoman is used to scan KEYWORDS,
6 >> and those arch maintainers with only ~arch keywording use `repoman
7 >> --include-dev` so changing the status from 'dev' to 'stable' won't
8 >> gain anything scanning wise
9 >
10 > not entirely true: repoman is for _every_ dev.
11 > facts are explained here:
12 > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/76909
13 >
14 > in practice, profiles.desc and arch/~arch are orthogonal.
15 >
16
17 Yes in practice they are orthogonal. One could argue that all profiles
18 should be marked 'stable' in order to improve the overall dependency
19 coverage and stability because, lets face it, very few devs run repoman -d.
20
21 --
22 Regards,
23 Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
24 http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang