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From: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] summary: proposed solutions to arches/stable problem
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 13:39:39
Message-Id: 200406232237.06678.jstubbs@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] summary: proposed solutions to arches/stable problem by Paul de Vrieze
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4 On Wednesday 23 June 2004 19:53, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
5 > On Tuesday 22 June 2004 23:33, Aron Griffis wrote:
6 > > At this point I've made a couple suggestions, and developers have
7 > > voiced either support or objections, and raised some good arguments
8 > > either way. I'm hoping this email will summarize the three suggested
9 > > approaches, their pros and cons, and we can eventually converge on a
10 > > single solution.
11 >
12 > I think that before this all, we first and all need to get absolutely clear
13 > what we want to do with these keywords. As a package maintainer I know that
14 > it can sometimes be displeasing when other archs mark your package as
15 > stable. I do however not think that we need to spend that much effort on
16 > the problem.
17 >
18 > If we want to spend the effort we however should first make clear the
19 > purpose, not just make clear what the arch maintainer's keyword is without
20 > making it clear what is the purpose of this knowledge.
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22 That's probably the most rational thing I've heard in this entire debate - not
23 that it has all been irrational...
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25 Regards,
26 Jason Stubbs
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