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On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> W dniu pon, 04.09.2017 o godzinie 14∶55 -0400, użytkownik Rich Freeman |
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> napisał: |
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>> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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>> > W dniu pon, 04.09.2017 o godzinie 14∶19 -0400, użytkownik Rich Freeman |
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>> > napisał: |
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>> > > If marking the profile as dev causes some breakage for users, then |
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>> > > those users should seriously consider contributing to the arch team, |
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>> > > because they're probably the only people around who might potentially |
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>> > > do so. If not, they get to keep the pieces. |
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>> > |
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>> > ...or dumping Gentoo for a distribution that doesn't dump huge breakage |
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>> > on users in week's time. Guess which one is more likely to happen. |
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>> > |
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>> We can of course send out a news item in advance and warn of possible |
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>> issues if they stick with stable keywords. That is no effectively |
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>> different than just removing the stable keywords - either breaks if |
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>> the user takes no action. |
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> No. Dumping stable in favor of ~arch is one thing, that can be easily |
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> fixed on user's side by using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~hppa". Or a profile |
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> change for users who do not override ACCEPT_KEYWORDS. |
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> Dumping profile stability altogether means that even ~arch won't work |
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> correctly anymore. |
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What do we think the odds are that we won't find ourselves in the same |
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place with ~arch in a few months? Just something to think about... |
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