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On 24/07/13 01:49 PM, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> Alex Xu wrote: |
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>>> Maybe it would make sense to automatically stabilize every v-s kernel |
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>>> right away? |
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>> As has been stated, this implies that Gentoo QA has tested the packages |
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>> and found them to be reasonably safe for use. |
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> .. |
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>> Although stable kernels *have* been tested by many people before use, |
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>> Gentoo QA has *not* (officially) tested them, at least not on every |
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>> architecture. |
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> I don't think that matters. |
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If you don't care too much for Gentoo QA, then you are free to run |
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global ~arch on your system. It works reasonably well (no sarcasm), and |
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almost always, someone has tested most packages on most architectures. |
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At least it's been tested by the programmer and maintainer. But that's |
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how KEYWORDS have always been used in Gentoo, as far as I know. |
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>> On a technical level, it's not that hard to put |
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>> "sys-kernel/vanilla-sources" in your package.accept_keywords. |
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> But why should Gentoo users have to do that in order to use v-s? |
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So they acknowledge that vanilla-sources has not been officially tested |
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by Gentoo QA. You are free to do the simple procedure once and trust the |
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kernel community to have done adequate testing. |
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> If it is intentional to push g-s onto users then it makes good sense - |
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> but if I were the sys-kernel team I wouldn't bother with g-s at all |
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> and just make v-s as easily available to users as possible.. |
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I can't comment on that. |
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