From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F297C1380DC for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 01:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A779DE0AB5; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 01:49:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from baptiste.telenet-ops.be (baptiste.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.51]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC0DE0A9F for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 01:49:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from TOMWIJ-GENTOO ([94.226.55.127]) by baptiste.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id NRpd1n0072khLEN01RpdqM; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 02:49:37 +0100 Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 02:48:06 +0100 From: Tom Wijsman To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: dropping redundant stable keywords Message-ID: <20140205024806.7d08cb63@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> In-Reply-To: <1391564122.3520.4.camel@oswin.hackershack.net> References: <52E7DBC1.5020102@gentoo.org> <20140128182304.7d458a17@marga.jer-c2.orkz.net> <20140203062524.GA7467@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> <20140203104341.2add2760@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <20140204210319.GA1935@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> <20140205010833.1bcf8dca@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <1391559808.3520.2.camel@oswin.hackershack.net> <20140205020742.048cef9f@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <1391564122.3520.4.camel@oswin.hackershack.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.22; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6e4b6e03-30cb-4a99-a303-9e1bbe52b3d4 X-Archives-Hash: d9b37b032c2d46be66b2579688a25549 On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 19:35:22 -0600 Steev Klimaszewski wrote: > Alright, well, I've tried my best, I give up. Instead of having > something working we should just remove ebuilds of working packages. s/should/could/ s/ebuilds/stable keyword or last stable version/ It is at the maintainer's discretion; and such decision is to make it possible for a maintainer to move on when he or she can no longer guarantee a working ebuild, to stop being progress-blocked by it. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D