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On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:15:32PM +0200, Auke Booij wrote: |
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> On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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> > What? I am talking about exotic arches and I didn't say to drop to |
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> > entire stable tree. Just to shrink it in order to keep it up to date |
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> > more easily |
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> But my question stands: what really is the advantage of having a |
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> stable tree, when you could better invest your time in keeping the |
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> testing tree up to date and working? Most production systems are |
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> running x86, right? Are stable versions of minority architecture |
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> installations really that much more stable than testing versions? |
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Because a stable tree it is supposed to work. Testing tree on the other |
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hand is vulnerable to breakages from time to time. We can't always |
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ensure a working testing tree. We are people not machines. We tend to |
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brake things and this is way we have the testing branch. |
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org |
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