Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:50:58 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote:
| Stephen Bennett napsal(a):
| > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:18:26 +0100
| > Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote:
| > 
| >> Sure I did... Could you tell me why should we accumulate broken and
| >> vulnerable junk in the tree for years? (Outdated ebuild A depends
| >> on junky outdated ebuild B which depends on crappy, unsupported
| >> ebuilds C, D and E which... )
| > 
| > To avoid breaking the dep tree for users. Quite simple really.
| 
| Ah. That's apparently much more important than not breaking users by
| providing them w/ non-vulnerable, decently uptodate stuff that's not
| ridden by tons of bugs. Yup. :P

So if it's "ridden by tons of bugs", why did it ever get marked stable?

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