On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:16 PM, hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:

> pros:
> - consistency of tree quality
> - less user confusion (the checksum failures alone get us a lot of bugs
> every release without people realizing what it means...) and people
> expect packages to work in the tree
> - less bugs no one can do anything about
> - easier contribution of users in an overlay, testing of hacks or other
> stuff to make it work
> - making clear that gentoo does not support software with such low QA
> - making clear that this software is experimental
>

Half of those apply also to p.mask'd packages as Duncan pointed out. Maybe
even more than half.


Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes
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