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I noted in another message that the developers are looking for a way to |
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get rid of package.mask in the 2.1 version of portage. I have an idea |
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that might accomplish that, while still allowing the flexibility that |
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Gentoo is prized for. |
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Essentially, it would involve assigning each ebuild a numeric stability |
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value. 10 would be the most stable, say equivalent to Debian stable, 5 |
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would be the equivalent of Debian testing and 0 (or lower) would be |
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like Debian unstable. Each user would have a stability threshold set in |
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their make.conf, packages with a lower stability number than the |
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threshold would not be installed. This would allow each user to set |
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their own comfort level. |
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Every ebuild would start out at at 0 (really bleeding edge stuff |
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might be negative!). Each week (or some other period of time) the |
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ebuild is released without a bug reported, it's stability rating is |
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increased by one point, until it reaches 10. If a bug is filed against a |
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package, it remains at the same stability level until all the bugs filed |
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against it are closed or it is manually bumped. |
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Does this make sense to anyone else? |
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jim nutt |
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