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 BFFCA138247 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 23:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B8F4E0AC5; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 23:50:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8AE3E0A6E for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 23:50:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.3.7] (cpe-69-207-16-110.buffalo.res.rr.com [69.207.16.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: blueness) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8DE8033DA84 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 23:50:03 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <52758FCD.6040106@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:50:37 -0400 From: "Anthony G. Basile" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130922 Thunderbird/17.0.9 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Releng breakage with respect to move from dev-python/python-exec to dev-lang/python-exec References: <5274FB3D.8080508@gentoo.org> <20131102145126.3c1f6cd7@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <20131102160330.0e6eaa5e@gentoo.org> <52755089.6090808@gentoo.org> <20131102213530.24388cda@gentoo.org> <52756723.9090300@gentoo.org> <20131102230940.233a8e4b@gentoo.org> <52758879.70200@gentoo.org> <20131103004526.64f6e789@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20131103004526.64f6e789@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0959c71c-abb7-4072-a4d8-8c10a88407d0 X-Archives-Hash: d686ce009d1d0c223565aaa094a5e71d On 11/02/2013 07:45 PM, yac wrote: > On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 19:19:21 -0400 > "Anthony G. Basile" wrote: > >> On 11/02/2013 06:09 PM, yac wrote: >>> I don't know how this releng stuff works. I bet there is lot of devs >>> who don't. >> This is why you should announce risking commits. Because you may not >> know what it will cause, but others will. >> > If I don't know in the first place, how do I know it's risky? > > Afaik there is no official way to update gentoo, is there? > > I personally got used to -uaNDv and I don't even know what exactly is > the difference and it's implications between that and just -uD > Adding something to the tree with all keywords set stable is risky. Take a look at the original commit. I understand why mgorny did it, but it should have been discussed. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D. Gentoo Linux Developer [Hardened] E-Mail : blueness@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 1FED FAD9 D82C 52A5 3BAB DC79 9384 FA6E F52D 4BBA GnuPG ID : F52D4BBA