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From: Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.5.1 arrived in the tree
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:52:32
Message-Id: 4AD601CC.4060503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] openrc-0.5.1 arrived in the tree by Branko Badrljica
1 Branko Badrljica schrieb:
2 > Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 >>
4 >> the mailing list is not bugzilla. any complaints you have about
5 >> USE=oldnet have nothing to do with this thread. it's a bug and should
6 >> be treated as such.
7 >> -mike
8 >>
9 >
10 > Which is why I have posted here to gripe about having documented such
11 > changes in future.
12 >
13 > I was told that new openrc is surely fine because it works for some
14 > group of people, that obviously includes developer.
15 >
16 > It is not enough, and please, don't keep such things in the future in
17 > more or less closed circles of your pals.
18 >
19 > Even simple "WARNING!!! Big changes, untested, not(yet) documented!"
20 > would be nice.
21 >
22 > I know what arch~ _should_ mean, but you know what it actually means.
23 > So, a little bit of pragmatic flexibility here would certainly decrease
24 > amount of raining urine and improve Gentoo's likability.
25
26 Using TESTING packages actually means the above big warning. But do you really want to annoy every
27 user with such a message everywhere, just because some people expect TESTING tree to be similar save
28 as stable tree?
29
30 --
31 Thomas Sachau
32
33 Gentoo Linux Developer

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