Re: [gentoo-dev] Getting EAPI 5 *use.stable.mask to work in gx86?

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:08:24 +0000
Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On 14 December 2012 14:59, Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >
> >> We already have plenty of understaffed arches, I don't think it is
> >> wise to throw more responsibilities to them. Unless of course all
> >> developers are allowed to touch these *stable* profiles which
> >> personally I don't like because arches will lose
> >> control of their stable trees.
> >
> > I'd like to point out that my proposal implies that the *current*
> > arches become the stable arches, and new sub-arches would be
> > the testing ones. Therefore, everyone will be allowed to touch like
> > everyone is allowed to touch the *stable* profiles today.
> >
> > In other words, we mask python_targets_pypy* in the base profiles,
> > and unmask them in the testing sub-profiles for amd64 & x86.
> >
> > --
> > Best regards,
> > Michał Górny
> 
> I fear that the stable and testing profiles will diverge way too much
> as time passes. But if you feel that maintainers and
> herds will be able to keep the 'diff' between them as minimum as
> possible, then I have no objections.

Well, my hope is that we will be able to do it mostly via a common
'testing' profile (or per-arch testing profiles) which will be parents
to other sub-profiles. 

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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