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From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 03:03:22
Message-Id: 20200319160305.0c42655e@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword by Thomas Deutschmann
1 On Thu, 19 Mar 2020 03:07:21 +0100
2 Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Why can't we use "ALLARCHES" stabilization for that?
5
6 Because that experiment basically failed.
7
8 Bugs with that flag, basically were treated (repeatedly) like that flag
9 wasn't there.
10
11 And that approach still has the weakness of it being a conjecture of
12 stability, not an evidence of stability.
13
14 But worse, it /hides/ this distinction, so an end user can't
15 differentiate between "stable by conjecture" and "stable by evidence"

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: noarch keyword Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@g.o>