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From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out!
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 09:39:53
Message-Id: 564EEA48.6060904@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out! by Rich Freeman
1 On 11/18/2015 01:01 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Alexander Berntsen <bernalex@g.o> wrote:
3 >> When I do QA in projects I'm involved with (at least outside of
4 >> Gentoo), we don't do it live on end-user systems. I'll leave the
5 >> details as an exercise for the Gentoo developer.
6 >>
7 > People who run ~arch are not really end-users - they're contributors
8 > who have volunteered to test packages.
9 Or people that use Gentoo because it allows them to satisfy requirements.
10
11 At work I don't 'want' to use ~arch packages, but external constraints
12 very strongly suggest that. Otherwise we'd just be on CentOS 5 and not
13 worry about things working properly.
14
15 And still we try to run updates in a sandbox first so we catch breakage
16 before it becomes a problem.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI 6 portage is out! Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>