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From: nado@××××××××××.be
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] about stable, dev and exp profile status
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 09:38:24
Message-Id: 58df7922f552806ee8755307e4e5c6c0@troglodyte.be
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] about stable, dev and exp profile status by "Paweł Hajdan
1 January 11, 2018 9:52 AM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." <phajdan.jr@g.o> wrote:
2
3 > On 11/01/2018 08:43, Fabian Groffen wrote:
4 >
5 >> I always was under the impression the following order (and explanation)
6 >> was the case:
7 >>
8 >> stable -> development -> experimental
9 >>
10 >> For this reason, e.g. Prefix profiles are (still) experimental, which
11 >> means they really shouldn't bother non-Prefix people. Prefix users and
12 >> developers work on an environment where those profiles are promoted to
13 >> development ones, such that repoman kicks in for their work. (At least
14 >> that was the idea.)
15 >>
16 >> I see you (re-)define dev as "developer's playground", and I wonder if
17 >> in that case it wouldn't be better to introduce a new one instead?
18 >>
19 >> Maybe I'm just one of a few who thinks the order is reversed now.
20 >
21 > The stable -> dev -> exp order also feels more natural to me.
22 >
23 > I don't have a strong opinion on this though.
24 >
25 > Paweł
26
27 I got the impression that it was indeed
28 stable -> development -> experimental
29
30 with dev as in development, it seemed logical to put it between stable and experimental.
31 But now that I read these comments I wonder if it wasnt supposed to be called 'developers'
32 and then the other way round makes sense too.
33
34 --
35 Corentin “Nado” Pazdera