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On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 03:03:21PM +0000, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> > So, I guess this means that the quality of the ~arch tree is supposed |
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> > to |
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> > be somewhat lower than the quality of the stable tree. |
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> > William |
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> William, |
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> I've been running ~arch everywhere since May 2002 and had exactly |
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> two major issues. They were :- |
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> Xorg going modular ... which I was aware of before it happened and |
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> expat which came as a surprise while I was dealing with modular |
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> Xorg. |
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> There have been some minor inconviences along the way too but |
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> problems running ~arch have reduced over the years. |
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> Nobody should run Gentoo at all in production unless they build |
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> and test packages offline before pushing the binaries to production. |
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> Then they can run whatever they want. |
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> Every Gentoo install is different and very few possible |
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> combinations are actually tested. |
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> By all means lower the bar for ~arch. Say, to "builds and works for |
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> me, needs more testing". The down side is that it will create more |
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> bug reports and more work, so it may only exchange one problem |
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> for another. |
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I think there's some confusion here. I'm not trying to change the bar |
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for ~arch, just trying to understand what that bar is supposed to be. |
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William |
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