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On Friday 04 May 2007, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote: |
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> I also don't agree with having an exception for the games herd. As |
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> others have questioned, how are games more important than security |
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> bumps? If we were considering exceptions, I would argue that allowing |
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> the security team to mark packages as stable would make a lot more |
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> sense, imho. |
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A quick 2c here from the peanut gallery: |
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Just leave the affected games always keyworded ~arch. The users of games |
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are generally pretty savvy and they know how portage works. You might |
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even find the majority of games players run ~arch boxes anyway so they |
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will never notice that the game ebuild is not in stable |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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