Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union

[Donnie Berkholz]

Jan Kundrát wrote:
> Ryan Phillips wrote:
>> Stable and unstable keywords are a hack on top of a version control
>> system.  We wouldn't have them if gentoo used an SCM that supports true
>> branches.  There would be no need.
>
> Umm, I'm not an ebuild dev, but how would users mix stable and unstable
> packages in such a case?

They would probably have to check out two trees. But the two trees 
combined would likely be the same size as the single tree now, since a 
lot of packages have at least two ebuilds available, one ~arch and one 
stable.

The real showstopper in my mind is that having a single ~arch and a 
single stable tree means you can't selectively stable things on 
different architectures at different times.

Thanks,
Donnie
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