Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman feature request / profiles.desc profile types

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 17:58:39 +0100
"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> Right now we have arches maintaining a stable keyword and we have
> arches that don't do that.
> 
> This makes me think that the classification of profiles as "exp",
> "dev", "stable" in profiles.desc does not really cover all usecases. 
> 
> [Current meaning: 
> "stable" - repoman checks it, arch has stable keyword
> "dev" - repoman checks it with -d
> "exp" - repoman ignores it]
> 
> I'd like to propose two additional profile types:
> "nonstable" - repoman checks it, arch has no stable keyword (and if
> there is one in an ebuild, repoman treats it as arch=~arch)
> "dev-nonstable" - repoman checks it with -d, arch has no stable
> keyword (and if there is one in an ebuild, repoman treats it as
> arch=~arch)

+1

(dev-nonstable isnt really appealing as history has proved that nobody
dares to check deptree for dev/exp profiles)

> Why not make it possible to keep an ~arch only deptree consistent?!

it is possible, there's just a lot of confusion around it :)
this "cosmetic" change should really help in avoiding this confusion


Alexis.