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Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > I STRONGLY beg to disagree! The "~amd64" notation is used to ACCEPT a |
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>> > package even though it is (still) classified as UNSTABLE. |
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>> This is package-manager terminology [...] |
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> No it's USER terminology. It's what users are confronted with when they |
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> set-up their Portage configuration and when they deal with commands like |
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> "emerge", "equery", and ilk. |
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So it is not package-manager terminology, but the terminology which |
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is used by users when they use the package-manager. I cannot see any |
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difference, but it doesn't matter. This discussion leads to nothing. |
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> Simply due to USER EXPECTATION the term "unstable" HAS to be |
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> the opposite of "isstable" |
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Not in gentoo. There ARCH is called the stable keyword and ~ARCH |
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is called the unstable keyword. |
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Again, this discussion leads to nothing. I will stop it here. |