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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: antarus@g.o, chromium@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stop altering of current release ebuilds and propagate the changes slowly
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:46:17
Message-Id: 20111111094529.69e12b2d@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Stop altering of current release ebuilds and propagate the changes slowly by Alec Warner
1 On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:22:34 -0800
2 Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > > Like it is not enough there is version bump every few days...
5 > > Just alter only live ebuild and branch of it with each release and
6 > > do not alter the releases unless really critical bug is there.
7 > > People are patient and they can wait for bugfixes.
8 >
9 > I actually like that chromium releases at a high rate of speed. Does
10 > that mean it sucks for Gentoo? Sure.
11 > However if I want to stay on a particular rev (so I don't recompile
12 > all the time) I can pmask it (and so can you.)
13
14 Maybe you could consider some of the releases major and other minor,
15 and just keep a mask for those minor. Much like we did with Opera some
16 time ago.
17
18 --
19 Best regards,
20 Michał Górny

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