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On Wednesday 23 April 2003 17:32, Stroller wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 02:17 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 22 Apr 2003 13:59, Frantz Dhin wrote: |
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> >> ... maybe we could make a |
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> >> new keyword? x86 for stable, ~x86 for unstable, and ^x86 for lunatic? |
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> > I couldn't agree more! |
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> Me, either! I don't know that "lunatic" is the best word, but it seems |
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> to me that an additional hierarchy [0] allows for a framework more |
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> flexible & extensible for end lusers. As I understand it builds with the |
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Unfortunately this is not that easy. Just accepting ebuild in and letting them |
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rot is either a dead-end or a security breach (or both :). Think about what |
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to do with them as they get tested and about possible submisisons overlappig |
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already existing *core* ebuilds, yek.. ). |
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Please take a look at #1523 to see what's on the plate ;). Only bear in mind, |
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that almost everything in that proposal was written before even KEYWORDS came |
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around, so terminology and, well, pretty much all implementation details are |
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out of date by now.. However the general structure still applies and contains |
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few more (relatively minor as compared to KEYWORDS and gentoo-stats/stable |
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(AKA voting system in that text)) additions. |
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I am afraid it is still too early to talk about implementation details (except |
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may be starategic things), as we need to complete the internal restructuring |
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we are attempting right now (and convincing more devs, that we need this kind |
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of thing implemented, as this was not universally accepted yet :)). But the |
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logical structure can and IMHO should be discussed. |
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One thing I can already tell for sure, is that security of any such system |
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will be an issue of paramount importance if this kind of thing to be |
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accepted. Namely guarantying by implementation that some unassisted |
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submission does not wreak a havoc on user system no mater what profile that |
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user runs (possibly except "definitely-unstable-you've-been-warned" or |
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whatever it's going to be called :)). |
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There are of course more issues of lesser but still major importance to be |
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considered, such as efficiency on all levels... |
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> [1] Am I correctly appreviating "^86, ^PPC or whatever" here? I'm not |
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> doing too well tonight. |
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That'd work, especially if you spell appreviate as abbreviate and make ppc |
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lowercase ;). |
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George |
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