[gentoo-dev] Three teir portage: stable, prestable, unstable?

[Ian Leitch]

Hi everyone,

I'm sure this HAS to have been discussed before, and if it has, it was
before my time. I'd like to hear peoples opinions and what the
conclusion was from earlier discussions. 

Just to make everything clear, I will outline exactly what I have in
mind. 

In my view, the portage tree would benefit from having the following:

STABLE arch:
Obvious realy, stable packages only. Considered a stable ebuild and
stable software.  

PRESTABLE (perhaps called Testing?) ~arch:
Only software considered stable but whos ebuild is considered unstable
or just badly written. OpenOffice is a good example: 1.1 is a stable
release but the ebuild contains warnings about the ebuild itself being
alpha. 

UNSTABLE >arch (or some other symbol):
Software stability takes precedence over ebuild stability here, eg a
package whos ebuild was very small and perfectly writen but the software
itself was considered unstable would be marked unstable and not
prestable. 


Regards,
Ian.  


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