From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L00Oo-0004iP-3S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:03:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83D90E0343; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F1BE0343 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6372464A20 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:03:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.935 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.935 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.664, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id mFtFW3wLpK3u for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:03:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B908364B9B for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:03:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L00OS-0006HM-4D for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:03:24 +0000 Received: from ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.99.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:03:24 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:03:24 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for how to handle stable ebuilds Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:03:17 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20081110181334.GD7038@aerie.halcy0n.com> <4918D0BC.50202@gentoo.org> <4918DE04.8010207@gentoo.org> <49195BFA.7060404@gentoo.org> <20081111172450.04e02b38@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> <20081111191241.021ce18b@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 3f292687-0007-4821-a158-a1549be425d9 X-Archives-Hash: f4236be9162ce8fb477b005c6a1f3c95 Jeroen Roovers posted 20081111191241.021ce18b@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net, excerpted below, on Tue, 1= 1 Nov 2008 19:12:41 +0100: > You did it again in the "IOW" quotation above explaining it as a "tripl= e > emphasis" instead of what it was intended to denote, namely as a few > possible examples of the meaning of "stability". In that case, I misread, as I interpreted the triple as emphasis, not=20 alternatives. If it was intended as alternatives, then yes, it makes=20 sense. Thanks. I wasn't seeing the alternatives view at all (obviously). --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman