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Alin Nastac wrote: [Wed Mar 09 2005, 04:57:15PM CST] |
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> Btw, what is the sense of ~arch if not "testing"? No gentooer |
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> expects from a ~arch ebuild to be stable, so the sky would not fall if |
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> you made a mistake and release it under this keyword. When I hear "I |
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> cannot mark foo library as ~arch because I don't know how to test it" |
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> smells like excuse to me. |
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*Sigh* The meaning of ~arch is that, at a minimum, the package works |
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for the person who keyworded it (or, in some cases, worked for a trusted |
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user on whose behalf the package was keyworded). In other words, the |
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dev believes that the package works, and that belief is based on |
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evidence, not just wishful thinking. An "arch" keyword means that there |
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is considerable evidence that the package works for multiple people. |
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Packages that might work, but also might not, ideally should not be in |
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the tree at all, but could reasonably be package.mask'ed if testing is |
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imminent. |
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I'm pretty sure that I'm spouting the company line, here, but feel free |
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to correct me if I'm wrong. |
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