Re: [gentoo-dev] Prevent to need to change all keywords at the same time

[Rich Freeman]

On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
<ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:40:02 -0400
> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>> I agree that it isn't a PMS issue - it is a tree quality issue.  PMS
>> doesn't prohibit introducing packages straight to stable, dropping
>> stable packages, etc.  These are all tree quality issues and a matter
>> of policy.
>
> The PMS issue is what exactly happens if two eclasses and an ebuild all
> set KEYWORDS. (With current EAPIs, there's no merging done.)
>

Thanks.

I'm still not hearing a really good reason for doing things this way.
I'm all ears if somebody has one.

Otherwise, right now this sounds like a debate about how we should ban
this practice, and not whether we should ban it.  But, the Council can
decide all around.

Rich