I think the problem is that Gentoo is falling into the same sandtrap the
> Debian project has been mired in forever. "arch" and "~arch" are
> polarizing
> into "stable, but horribly out of date", and "maybe it will work".
>
> This leads to people trying to maintain a
> frankenstinian /etc/portage/package.keywords file, constantly adding to it
> and never knowing when things can be removed from it.
>
> I would suggest opening a middle ground tag, where things can be moved to
> from
> "~arch" when they work for reasonable configuration values, but still have
> open bugs for some people.
>
> That way, people who prefer stability over the latest features can run
> "arch",
> and everyone who bitches about packages being out of date can run the
> middle
> tag, and "~arch" can be kept for testing.
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> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
Or maybe we could move to a fixed release cycle. Debian uses 18 (?) months,
but maybe a 3- or 6-month release cycle would suit us better

Jeff.

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