Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving more arches to dev profiles

[Markos Chandras]

On 22 August 2013 11:01, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
>> On 22 August 2013 01:19, Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o> wrote:
>>>> Is there an alternative? afaik a profile can be either stable,dev or
>>>> exp. I can't see how we can implement something between
>>>> stable and dev. And what would that represent? It may or may not be
>>>> stable? If this is the case, then I believe ~arch is more preferred.
>>>
>>> I haven't read much into it, but Fedora has a concept of "Secondary
>>> Architectures." I think it would make sense if we could keep stable
>>> keywords for them, but not prevent maintainers from needing to wait on
>>> them to stabilize other packages.
>>
>> I don't see how that would work. You can't remove older versions
>> unless a newer one is stabilized, or you'd break the tree.
>
> Sort-of.  You'd break it in that users would have to accept ~arch to
> keep that package, or remove it.  It is really no different than
> dropping stable keywords which forces them to do the same thing,
> except that you're doing it one package at a time.
>
> You could impose a time limit to respond to the STABLEREQ prior to
> removal (30-60 days or something).
>
> I think the result of a policy like this would be that stable keywords
> would get dropped on most peripheral packages, but system packages
> might still keep them.  That might actually be the right balance - if
> the arch teams focus on just system or other important packages they
> might be able to find the time to keep up rather than trying to boil
> the ocean.
>
> Rich
>

What's the point of that? Most users need more than what @system
provides so after they deploy the 'stable' stage3 they will
start pulling ~arch packages that were never tested against the stable
tree. It so much better if stage3 was also ~arch.

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Regards,
Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer
http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang