[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Future of gentoo's stable and unstable trees: what are your thoughts?

[Duncan]

Rich Freeman posted on Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:55:05 -0400 as excerpted:

> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 8:24 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
>> Rich Freeman posted on Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:11:24 -0400 as excerpted:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [T]he conclusion I was hoping to draw is that one
>>>> has 2 repos instead of 1.
>>>>
>>>> 1) Rolling.
>>>> 2) Stable.
>>>>
>>> This seems like it would be fairly painful to maintain.
>>
>> FWIW, the gentoo/kde team effectively do this right now
>>
> The difficulty isn't in moving the ebuilds around.
>
> The difficulty is in knowing WHICH ebuilds to move around.
>
> In the case of KDE it is the maintainers doing the maintaining,

Very good point.  Thanks.

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