Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@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 13:46:31
Message-Id: 20130923154622.2ffb6a44@portable
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: News item: m68k, s390, and sh are dropping stable keywords by Samuli Suominen
1 On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:25:40 +0300
2 Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > profiles.desc status is about how repoman is used to scan KEYWORDS,
5 > and those arch maintainers with only ~arch keywording use `repoman
6 > --include-dev` so changing the status from 'dev' to 'stable' won't
7 > gain anything scanning wise
8
9 not entirely true: repoman is for _every_ dev.
10 facts are explained here:
11 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/76909
12
13 in practice, profiles.desc and arch/~arch are orthogonal.

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