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On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 09:24:10AM +0300, Mikle Kolyada wrote: |
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> We must keep gentoo as stable as possible taking care of our production |
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> users, I can speak of myself here, I am currently maintaining |
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> computation clusters with > 1k units (all are under gentoo), and I would |
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> not happy to see my cluster somehow affected by unstable features in the |
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> mainline (neither would others I believe). |
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> Still gentoo is the only meta distribution with freedom of choice, that |
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> says we can really implement bleeding edge solutions with a separate |
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> profile and something like "I_KNOW_WHAT_I_AM_DOING=1" variable set in |
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> the make.conf, the only question of implementation. |
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As I said in my last message on this thread, the stable tree is supposed |
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to be for that, so if your cluster is using fully stable packages I |
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would be concerned about this. |
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Is that what you are doing, or are you using ~ keywords for any of the |
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packages? |
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William |
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