Branko Badrljica schrieb:
> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>
>> the mailing list is not bugzilla.  any complaints you have about
>> USE=oldnet have nothing to do with this thread.  it's a bug and should
>> be treated as such.
>> -mike
>>   
> 
> Which is why I have posted here to gripe about having documented such
> changes in future.
> 
> I was told that new openrc is surely fine because it works for some
> group of people, that obviously includes developer.
> 
> It is not enough, and please, don't keep such things in the future in
> more or less closed circles of your pals.
> 
> Even simple "WARNING!!! Big changes, untested, not(yet) documented!"
> would be nice.
> 
> I know what arch~ _should_ mean, but you know what it actually means.
> So, a little bit of  pragmatic flexibility here would certainly decrease
> amount of raining urine and improve Gentoo's likability.

Using TESTING packages actually means the above big warning. But do you really want to annoy every
user with such a message everywhere, just because some people expect TESTING tree to be similar save
as stable tree?

-- 
Thomas Sachau

Gentoo Linux Developer