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On Thursday 04 May 2006 14:21, Jeff Rollin wrote: |
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> All, |
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> If I might weigh in at this late stage: |
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> How did we end up here in the first place? Isn't the point of ~arch |
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> that we can put stuff here that might WELL be unstable? Sure, we'll get |
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> lots of "I set my ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to ~arch and now my system is |
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> broken," messages, but if people are going to try ~arch, or Gentoo in |
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> general, despite warnings that it's "not for newbies" (and I have |
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> personal experience of this), we can't really stop them without turning |
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> the community into a fascist state, can we? Gentoo (like all projects) |
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> has a finite amount of developers, and if we spend to much time on |
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> ~arch then surely arch will suffer |
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Actually the testing keywords are not for unstable packages. If something |
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is unstable it must be masked. If we however want to test our packaging |
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we put it in ~arch. If something is in ~arch that means that it works for |
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the packager, but that your mileage may vary. ~arch may sometimes have |
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unexpected problems, especially involving migration from old versions to |
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new versions. Actually most time is spent on ~arch, as there is where |
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development happens. As a package is seen to be stable, then it gets |
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promoted to arch. This is just a change of the keyword. The developer |
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then goes on to newer versions of the package. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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