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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 12:41:44
Message-Id: 53B2AC6E.6010909@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch by Jeroen Roovers
1 On 06/30/14 22:15, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
2 > On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 09:25:27 -0400
3 > Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Agree 100%. I'm taking about masking things that HAVEN'T BEEN TESTED
6 >> AT ALL. The maintainer knows that they compile, and that is it.
7 >
8 > Developers who "HAVEN'T [...] TESTED AT ALL" and still commit their
9 > changes to the tree should immediately hand in their toys and leave
10 > the project.
11 >
12
13 I usually avoid overlays (best way to make things hard to find), so when
14 there's stuff that upstream says is experimental (e.g. perl6/rakudo with
15 the MoarVM backend) I have no issue with adding it as un-keyworded
16 ebuilds to the tree. That way it's easy to test, and once there's a bit
17 more confidence that it works well enough it's trivial to keyword.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] package.mask vs ~arch Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>