Re: [gentoo-dev] Is there a process for marking ebuilds stable?

[Brad Laue <brad@brad-x.com>]

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 15:39, C. Brewer wrote:

> While I don't oppose your or anyones use of KDE, GNOME, or alsa, some things must be taken into consideration. I, for one, don't use a desktop environment, preferring a window-manager for my tasks, and I'm sure that I am not alone. Therefore you have negated that many testers with this sort of proposal (I for one run completely unstable). Secondly, while alsa may be the sound system of the future, it does not support all cards and some people are restricted to the kernel mods. Shorten your list of testers again. And since KDE and such require X, you leave out all of your CLI users, which will probably be your most critical old-schoolers and ex-UNIX peeps (gross stereotyping here). I think that it should stay that if it builds and runs with a reasonable amount of positive reports vs. bugs then it should go stable. I just wanted to point out that certain matters of selectiveness will negate your amount of testers, and probably work against your ends.
> 

Absolutely. One set of CFLAGS would have to logically exclude GNOME and
KDE extensions, to see whether the ebuild builds and merges without
these.

Brad


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