Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for kde3 beta etc.

[Geert Bevin <gbevin@theleaf.be>]

> The ebuilds in /incoming are untested and should not be used by users.
> But since it's available to users, users use it anyway.
> 
> I think it all comes down to what kind of distribution we want to
> create. If we want to make a distribution for those that create it and
> use-at-own-risk for everyone else (this is all fine by me) we should
> clearly state this (to users and developers).


Personally I think that since we're steering towards v1.0, stability and 
clarity for the regular user should be an important issue. People tend 
to ignore warnings or disclaimers and go ahead anyway. Then when it 
doesn't work they either get a bad image of the distribution or they ask 
questions on the mailinglist or irc channel about the stuff that was 
essentially unsupported, taking up valuable developer's time and 
patience. I really think that they shouldn't get the opportunity to get 
access to those ebuilds unless it's clearly distributed seperately as a 
complete alpha (or beta) branch. Just my idea on the topic.

> If we want to create a distributions for everyone we have to go around
> to make users don't hurt themeselfs. Since users _will_ do bad things to
> there own systems if they are able to. And if so, masking and comments
> are not enough, imho. 


I agree with that.

> CVS branches solves these problems (and we have to start using branches
> sooner or later anyway, preferable when we release 1.0). 
> 
> Regards,
>   Mikael Hallendal



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