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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2017-09-10
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 19:05:11
Message-Id: 1504551906.1009.27.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2017-09-10 by Rich Freeman
1 W dniu pon, 04.09.2017 o godzinie 14∶55 -0400, użytkownik Rich Freeman
2 napisał:
3 > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 2:37 PM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
4 > > W dniu pon, 04.09.2017 o godzinie 14∶19 -0400, użytkownik Rich Freeman
5 > > napisał:
6 > >
7 > > > If marking the profile as dev causes some breakage for users, then
8 > > > those users should seriously consider contributing to the arch team,
9 > > > because they're probably the only people around who might potentially
10 > > > do so. If not, they get to keep the pieces.
11 > >
12 > > ...or dumping Gentoo for a distribution that doesn't dump huge breakage
13 > > on users in week's time. Guess which one is more likely to happen.
14 > >
15 >
16 > We can of course send out a news item in advance and warn of possible
17 > issues if they stick with stable keywords. That is no effectively
18 > different than just removing the stable keywords - either breaks if
19 > the user takes no action.
20
21 No. Dumping stable in favor of ~arch is one thing, that can be easily
22 fixed on user's side by using ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~hppa". Or a profile
23 change for users who do not override ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.
24
25 Dumping profile stability altogether means that even ~arch won't work
26 correctly anymore.
27
28 --
29 Best regards,
30 Michał Górny

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