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Another possible solution that hasn't been considered is adding another |
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variable to ebuilds, like so: |
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STABLE="yes" |
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If STABLE is set to "yes", then the ebuild is considered stable. If STABLE is |
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missing or set to "no", then it is not. You could go a step further in this |
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and say that if an ebuild is explicitly set to STABLE="no", then that can not |
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move to stable on any arch (for instance, _pre or _rc releases). There's no |
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reason for a repoman QA check to have any effect whatsoever on the user, and |
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this would avoid that. |
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PROS: |
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- avoids the pitfalls of changing KEYWORDS behaviour |
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- avoids issues with KEYWORDS order |
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- Does not require immediate portage upgrade for users |
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- Only requires changes to repoman behaviour |
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CONS: |
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- another environment variable |
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- probably something I'm missing, but I don't see what |
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The STABLE variable can be added to ebuilds at our leisure, when changes are |
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committed to those ebuilds. This doesn't necessarily have to be done by the |
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ebuild maintainer, either. A good rule of thumb could be: |
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If the ebuild is marked stable on x86, then the ebuild should have |
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STABLE="yes" in it. |
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What do you think? Sure would be a lot less painful solutions. |
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