[gentoo-dev] about stable, dev and exp profile status

[Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>]

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On 07-01-2018 21:25:28 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> I'd like to follow this with a more precise proposal. Namely, redefine
> the current profile statuses to apply the following:
> 
> a. stable -> fully tested, all depgraph breakages are errors,
> 
> b. exp -> fully tested, all depgraph breakages are warnings,
> 
> c. dev -> developer's playground, not tested.

I always was under the impression the following order (and explanation)
was the case:

stable -> development -> experimental

For this reason, e.g. Prefix profiles are (still) experimental, which
means they really shouldn't bother non-Prefix people.  Prefix users and
developers work on an environment where those profiles are promoted to
development ones, such that repoman kicks in for their work.  (At least
that was the idea.)

I see you (re-)define dev as "developer's playground", and I wonder if
in that case it wouldn't be better to introduce a new one instead?

Maybe I'm just one of a few who thinks the order is reversed now.

Thanks,
Fabian

-- 
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level

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