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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:54:47
Message-Id: 200509161750.39591.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting by Mike Frysinger
1 On Friday 16 September 2005 04:43 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Friday 16 September 2005 04:25 pm, Daniel Ostrow wrote:
3 > > His point (and it's an unfortunately valid one) as I understand it is
4 > > that our user base has been (mis)educated to avoid packages in p.mask
5 > > for fear of breaking things too badly. As such it gets an inherently far
6 > > smaller test base then packages in ~arch do.
7 >
8 > arch stable
9 > ~arch unstable
10 > ?arch should work fine, but not 100% sure yet
11 > package.mask known to be broken in some way
12
13 actually, going with say 'testing.mask' instead of '?arch' may be better ...
14 reinforce the fact that this is a package-level issue rather than
15 arch-specific
16 -mike
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting Kito <kito@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting Maurice van der Pot <griffon26@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] first council meeting Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>