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On 22 August 2013 13:17, Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote: |
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> Having a mixed setup isn't that absurd as you want it to be. |
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> And forcing users to not use it renders all package.{accepted_,}keywords |
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> granularity moot. |
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> It's like nailing them to debian stable or debian testing w/o backports |
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> or anything. |
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> Please stop dooming this possibility. Mixing together software versions |
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> isn't that much of a magic as you make of it. |
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I said that it is a combination not well tested so we do not encourage |
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this. Users are free to do whatever they want. |
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When did I say the opposite? However they should not expect much |
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support if they use a mixed system and they run into |
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troubles. Someone who does that, should know what he is doing and be |
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prepared to run into problems. |
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And I will stop here because this discussion is off-topic. |
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>> It's also a bit ehm, funny, to give them a stable stage3 and then tell |
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>> them that for everything else, please use ~arch. |
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> (I'm not saying that it doesn't hurt in some places, but it's |
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> manageable, as is living on arches with stable core and very few stable |
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> leave packages, like I've been doing on sparc, ppc and arm.) |
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This is yet to be decided. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang |
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