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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Council meeting 2015-04-14: call for agenda items
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 08:05:09
Message-Id: 20150406095533.762c3a9f@pomiot.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Council meeting 2015-04-14: call for agenda items by Rich Freeman
1 Dnia 2015-04-05, o godz. 20:47:51
2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> napisał(a):
3
4 > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > How git is relevant I don't really see, you'd still have to re-test all
7 > > involved packages, so the effort is mostly in testing and not in running
8 > > ekeyword in a loop.
9 > >
10 >
11 > If you removed stable keywords from 300 packages, they would be in a
12 > single git commit. That means you can restore those keywords in a
13 > single command once you've checked that the new library can be made
14 > stable. The benefit of git is that tree-wide operations are atomic.
15
16 Which is a moot point since once user gets hit by 300 packages
17 suddenly going ~arch, he has no point in using stable anymore.
18
19 --
20 Best regards,
21 Michał Górny