From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19152 invoked by uid 1002); 6 Oct 2003 21:14:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 10596 invoked from network); 6 Oct 2003 21:14:11 -0000 From: Ian Leitch To: Lisa Seelye Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1065473505.28246.7.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> References: <1065476836.4871.22.camel@Interimo.Intern.LAN> <1065473505.28246.7.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1065478086.4139.38.camel@Interimo.Intern.LAN> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 23:08:06 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Three teir portage: stable, prestable, unstable? X-Archives-Salt: 6f795f53-7a9f-4da2-88ff-fd58ded59479 X-Archives-Hash: 2d01b56d510552397e0c0af5a94f3856 On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 21:51, Lisa Seelye wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 17:47, Ian Leitch wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm sure this HAS to have been discussed before, and if it has, it was > > before my time. I'd like to hear peoples opinions and what the > > conclusion was from earlier discussions. > > > > Just to make everything clear, I will outline exactly what I have in > > mind. > > > > In my view, the portage tree would benefit from having the following: > > How? Why does this warrant a radical change to the system? As I'm sure all devs know, ~arch is used for other things than just testing ebuilds. "The purpose of ~arch is for testing new packages added to Portage. This is not the equivalent of "testing" of "unstable" in other distributions." - Development Policy Making these changes would sort out this little problem/mess whatever you want to call it. I also think the extra unstable branch would take some weight off package.mask, which could then be reserved for the need to mask a package for temporary licensing issues etc.. without removing it from portage. Stable would also gradulay become more stable. We can't match Debian for stability but we could have the best of both worlds: up-to-date, reasonably stable software. This must be pretty attractive to those using Gentoo on the server and more importantly, those thinking about it. Regards, Ian. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list