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 1L2ZK0-0005Um-CY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:45:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6214E03A3; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83151E03A3 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 659E364455 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:45:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.363 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.363 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.236, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id pPf9Gr0pPjYW for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:45:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7D164461 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L2ZJi-0007ad-TX for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:45:07 +0000 Received: from s0106001f3b27dbf9.mj.shawcable.net ([70.64.208.8]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:45:06 +0000 Received: from dirtyepic by s0106001f3b27dbf9.mj.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:45:06 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Ryan Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:45:04 -0600 Message-ID: <20081118164504.466dff16@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> References: <20081110181334.GD7038@aerie.halcy0n.com> <20081116183814.0931c9de@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> <1226934657.4891.21.camel@athena.ghs.com> <20081117190806.3ffe2dbb@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> <1227027443.4891.54.camel@athena.ghs.com> <20081118151829.378bc23f@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> <1227045873.4891.79.camel@athena.ghs.com> 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-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/InQpSUY5APjjU3DwC8cMpR3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: s0106001f3b27dbf9.mj.shawcable.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.14.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 9950edf7-dac4-4f23-b7ed-edfc41b87e16 X-Archives-Hash: b0742b52d79927d83488589606fca995 --Sig_/InQpSUY5APjjU3DwC8cMpR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:04:33 -0500 Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > Honestly, I don't want to be a dick to the arch teams. I really > don't. But I *also* don't want them (or policy) to be a dick to me. > That's my whole point; that requirement of never removing the last > stable ebuild, in shouting caps no less, is way too absolute, and is > just going to piss people like me off. For the record, the all in caps bit was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the ultra-formal format that the IETF RFC's are in that was being emulated here. It was included for levity, not for shouting. http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt --=20 gcc-porting, by design, by neglect treecleaner, for a fact or just for effect wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662 --Sig_/InQpSUY5APjjU3DwC8cMpR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkjRXAACgkQiqiDRvmkBmLfpQCgz1gD9Rm27Xy213SGM/t2ZcSh RnQAmwYgRQRTvEfIP/fMNb+Rd6ROvrNl =pHWr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/InQpSUY5APjjU3DwC8cMpR3--