From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K9F8T-0002fN-AJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:04:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD6CDE0423; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:04:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB49AE0423 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:04:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i28so230347wxd.10 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:04:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-disposition :message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DSe2fTiM1pUeWgh72RG1qHhUFL7FZe4crADCizsVTQU=; b=tZ02GqdZR6GNiLaDGj1EOztZmsNtz71FSddl/oNdNTlOi9KPZtxwLu6BNbl8e6OiPM qpC9E3drJh9Hh1i9wVMMTaeIwSlxLXtfF+Uh1+iQswM5ashDBSpfrQy3Jyq3nTSg9zdK diPf/5iFAUqfoqxvbc0Qv4j+PSj3fZ/nd85Zw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-disposition:message-id:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=fH9qeYROuCgJTPfyzv5NKLg/yK1MazNyAa8XF8BnOzIO+zS7E/Nic/z4v9Cy5sqZxr ZPC1mtpeF6t4NJjFucxs/biX+k5SPI159qeDea4AEiH38Iszr3t5/8JdZqBwl8p342qR LnTQ39SFxr6+7mS9Ah3ChAfCPMI8MLDQJWFSU= Received: by 10.70.116.19 with SMTP id o19mr1968040wxc.23.1213862687254; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:04:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shiny-one.home ( [81.158.32.93]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i15sm434394wxd.23.2008.06.19.01.04.46 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:04:46 -0700 (PDT) From: David Leverton To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Agenda [WAS: One-Day Gentoo Council Reminder for June] Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:04:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20080611070618.54E4066E24@smtp.gentoo.org> <200806190652.48744.levertond@googlemail.com> <485A0DAE.7020304@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <485A0DAE.7020304@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806190904.44195.levertond@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 29f474aa-3930-4618-a2b8-7f61f94ce328 X-Archives-Hash: ca9050721a7f1ac9df09ab408d5aa09d On Thursday 19 June 2008 08:41:34 Luca Barbato wrote: > > The point is to avoid breaking Portage versions that users might > > reasonably be using, even if only briefly. Do you really expect /all/ > > users doing a new installation to choose the scary beta instead of the > > nice safe release? > > What about those who do not update since 1.0? how could they survive the > havoc? Is avoiding a beta version of something moderately important (like, say, installation media) really equivalent to not updating for over five years? > Trying to make HUGE MONSTERS of little corner case is the favorite sport > of Ciaranm and crew, be it a "beta" tag, an obscure feature some > developers may like for tracking live sources (and the user should not > use), possible fut{ure,ile} changes in the ebuild format. Please take the ad hominems elsewhere. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list