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On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:26:29 +0100 |
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David Seifert <soap@g.o> wrote: |
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> Round 2 (with correct whitespace this time): |
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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: 2017-11-20 |
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> Revision: 1 |
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> News-Item-Format: 1.0 |
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> Display-If-Keyword: amd64 x86 |
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> |
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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 ebuilds maintained by the games |
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> project to unstable KEYWORDS (without those required by other stable |
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> packages). If you have any of these stable games packages installed, |
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> you will have to add them to /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/ |
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> manually. Failures related to missing stable KEYWORDS will show up as |
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> |
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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 more |
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> 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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> |
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> While we accept that this will cause some irritation for the |
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> community, pretending we have a well supported games collection by |
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> having a wealth of stable games packages is misleading at best. We |
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> welcome contributions from outsiders willing to polish up the games |
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> landscape in Gentoo via the Proxy Maintainers. |
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What does it mean for the future? Should not users bother to test & |
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write stabilization request bugs for games anymore? Or stabi |
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requests will still be accepted? |
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Robert |
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-- |
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Róbert Čerňanský |
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E-mail: openhs@×××××××××.com |
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Jabber: hs@××××××.sk |
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