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171118 David Seifert wrote: |
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> As the Games team does not have enough manpower to keep tabs on all |
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> games packages, we have dropped all games-* ebuilds to unstable |
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> keywords (modulo those required by stable non-games packages). |
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> While I accept that this will cause some irritation for the community, |
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> pretending we have a well supported games collection by having a wealth |
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> of stable games packages is misleading at best. By having 99% of games |
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> be unstable, we convey the expectation users should have - namely that |
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> games in Gentoo are not part of crucial Tier 1 packages. |
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> We welcome contributions from outsiders willing to polish up the games |
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> landscape in Gentoo. |
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Isn't this overkill in the absence of widespread bug reports for games ? |
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'Stable' doesn't mean well-maintained, |
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but in the tree for some time & no serious bug reports. |
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