From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3D5ED138334 for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2018 13:37:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A328E0DD4; Sun, 18 Nov 2018 13:37:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ra.horus-it.com (ra.horus-it.com [IPv6:2a01:4f8:10b:202e::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0BE41E0CBA for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2018 13:37:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ra.horus-it.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492F148C0F5B for ; Sun, 18 Nov 2018 14:37:17 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: at horus-it.com From: Ralph Seichter To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help with dev-util/cargo blocking dev-lang/rust. In-Reply-To: <20181118131359.2270d0a1@digimed.co.uk> References: <7a28f836-f2fe-a15b-0d51-ca2fb5fc5fac@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <3098427F-0251-44D7-A5D2-1DAEADB9A95A@gmail.com> <08a81df7-9d63-b074-8ee5-cdbf7b809377@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <4fb457e8-95f0-cd05-7243-28beb20db187@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <9c01349e-3ddd-7774-5732-2a637682e96c@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net> <20181118131359.2270d0a1@digimed.co.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 14:37:04 +0100 Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Archives-Salt: b28e61ff-262f-445b-bac5-058ed7f87970 X-Archives-Hash: 201fc0e23b740a795c5ebbf09055ab52 * Neil Bothwick: > That's because ~ doesn't mean unstable, it means testing. Stable in > this context means less likely to change, not less likely to fall > over. Plus the differentiation is for the ebuilds, not the software > itself. It is also worth mentioning that ebuilds cannot be added to the tree with "stable" flags, at least not by unprivileged contributors such as myself. If, for example, there is an upstream bugfix release, I will copy my existing ebuild because neither build process nor dependencies have changed one bit, but I am required to change keywords to unstable anyway. Switching to stable would require a second pull request after at least a month has passed, and many contributors just don't bother with that. -Ralph