Re: [gentoo-dev] stable and unstable branches.

[Alexander Gretencord <arutha@gmx.de>]

On Wednesday 24 July 2002 06:32, Christian Axelsson wrote:
> How about mask the "unstable" ebuilds in the stable distribution?

That's the same. The people he is talking about won't unmask it.

> GenToo Linux is a distribution for powerusers by powerusers :)

Exactly _but_ I'd really like to have a "stable" gentoo that you can use in a 
production environment without the need to test every lil thing yourself. 
That's why managers normally want something like RH so they can have others 
test everything and blame them if something goes wrong.

Also there needs to be some quality control even for power users. I am no 
newbie and have submitted some ebuilds but some things I just wanna merge and 
know they work. I made my own custom ebuild for apache but I surely would not 
do anything about say openoffice ... just build it (or in that case better 
merge openoffice-bin :)) and have it work.


Alex

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