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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: repoman feature request / profiles.desc profile types
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 04:18:56 +1100
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On 02/17/2014 03:58 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> Why not make it possible to keep an ~arch only deptree consistent?!

amd64-fbsd already does this with a stable profile. They just choose to
not actually have any stable keywords.
In my opinion, the profile type is better as a description of that
profile, rather than a signifier of what keywords are permitted.