Re: [gentoo-dev] keywording of new style virtuals

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, William Hubbs wrote:

> from my previous discussion, I am about to put a new virtual in the
> tree. Do I need to use the same ~arch/30 day wait/stabilize cycle I
> would normally use even though the default package the virtual will
> bring in is stable everywhere?

> I'm thinking I can take the virtual straight to stable in this
> situation,, but I want to be sure.

I don't think that we have fixed rules about this, but there was a
discussion in 2007:
<http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_682b30a8c8aa0b29602645271b19f603.xml>

- Virtuals don't install any files, so there's no need for a 30 days
  waiting period. They can go straight to stable if at least one
  dependency is stable (for the arch in question).
- Noone from arch teams objected about virtuals being stabilised by
  their maintainer.

Ulrich