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NEWS item for de-stabled games |
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Title: No stable KEYWORDS for Gentoo Games |
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Author: David Seifert < soap@g.o > |
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Content-Type: text/plain |
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Posted: 2017-11-19 |
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Revision: 1 |
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News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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Display-If-K eyword: amd64 x86 |
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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). If |
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you have any of these stable games packages installed, you will have |
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to add them to /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/ manually. |
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Failures related to missing stable KEYWORDS will show up like |
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The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed: |
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(see "package.accept_keywords" in the portage(5) man page for |
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more details) |
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# required by @selected |
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# required by @world (argument) |
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=games-action/0verkill-0.16-r4 ~amd64 |
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While we accept that this will cause some irritation for the |
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community, |
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pretending we have a well supported games collection by having a |
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wealth |
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of stable games packages is misleading at best. By having 99% of |
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games |
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be unstable, we convey the expectation users should have - namely |
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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 |
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games |
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landscape in Gentoo. |
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