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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 21:25:16
Message-Id: 200402022040.45930.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: GLEP 19 -- Gentoo Stable Portage Tree by James Harlow
1 On Monday 02 February 2004 19:01, James Harlow wrote:
2 > On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 11:59:33AM -0500, Michael Cummings wrote:
3 > > Not sure about the implimentation of a stable:arch,
4 > > though I'm sure carpaski and team is loath to having a new
5 > > field added as an alternative (stable:true/false?).
6 >
7 > Wouldn't it make more sense to keep it as a seperate tree, distributed
8 > on seperate servers? This would take care of issues such as:
9 >
10 > * only allowing Gentoo Stable users (ie ones who have coughed up)
11 > to access it;
12
13 As it is now, gentoo stable will be free. I think it will stay free too.
14
15 > * not requiring contributing users (ie ones who have paypalled us
16 > money) to support paying users;
17
18 There will be no paying users before these very valid issues have been
19 addressed. I personally don't think paying users is such a good idea at the
20 moment.
21
22 Paul
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25 Paul de Vrieze
26 Gentoo Developer
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