On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:24:41 -0600 Grant Goodyear wrote: | However, I don't believe that ~arch should be used for ebuilds | that one _knows_ have broken functionality. For such cases we | have package.mask. Indeed. It's in the developer docs and it's in the quiz. And yet... http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/hollow/2005/03/14/apache_dithering > I can understand that breaking the system isn't a very good idea and > people will complain, but this does not count for the testing branch. *sigh* Er, no. If you *know* it's broken, don't stick it in ~arch. If it has no known issues, but hasn't been widely tested, then ~arch is fine, but not if it's completely h0rked. For how long have these people been developers and who were their mentors? I'm starting to think that this wasn't a simple mistake -- rather, that it's a complete misunderstanding of what the different KEYWORDS levels mean... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm