From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2EEiOe3013327 for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:44:24 GMT Received: from [62.254.189.226] (helo=snowdrop) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1DAqnu-0000cn-KM for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:44:22 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop) by snowdrop with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DAqnH-0003an-S8 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:43:43 +0000 Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:43:41 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] apache and ~arch Message-ID: <20050314144341.3017e91b@snowdrop> In-Reply-To: <20050313172441.GA21923@dst.grantgoodyear.org> References: <20050313172441.GA21923@dst.grantgoodyear.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: , , List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Signature_Mon__14_Mar_2005_14_43_41_+0000_223vSs9LfWBfQ8ub; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 X-Archives-Salt: ab868406-8816-4bbf-a99d-a9003a151498 X-Archives-Hash: 87c9b4cf80612bc15651dd07d029cbc7 --Signature_Mon__14_Mar_2005_14_43_41_+0000_223vSs9LfWBfQ8ub Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Mon__14_Mar_2005_14_43_41_+0000_223vSs9LfWBfQ8ub Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCNaMe96zL6DUtXhERAncSAJ48vryl3VTzcSDMe80AEuN5ioVMWgCfQAMC o4e32xCFAqtSs2XVFWdzEf0= =JuXt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Mon__14_Mar_2005_14_43_41_+0000_223vSs9LfWBfQ8ub-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list