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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] about stable, dev and exp profile status
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 08:55:50
Message-Id: 8c1b83ba-59d3-b329-eb81-1c9b67f22b2b@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] about stable, dev and exp profile status by Fabian Groffen
1 On 11/01/2018 08:43, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > I always was under the impression the following order (and explanation)
3 > was the case:
4 >
5 > stable -> development -> experimental
6 >
7 > For this reason, e.g. Prefix profiles are (still) experimental, which
8 > means they really shouldn't bother non-Prefix people. Prefix users and
9 > developers work on an environment where those profiles are promoted to
10 > development ones, such that repoman kicks in for their work. (At least
11 > that was the idea.)
12 >
13 > I see you (re-)define dev as "developer's playground", and I wonder if
14 > in that case it wouldn't be better to introduce a new one instead?
15 >
16 > Maybe I'm just one of a few who thinks the order is reversed now.
17
18 The stable -> dev -> exp order also feels more natural to me.
19
20 I don't have a strong opinion on this though.
21
22 Paweł

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