On Saturday 29 April 2006 19:52, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Jan Kundrát wrote: > > Ryan Phillips wrote: > >> Stable and unstable keywords are a hack on top of a version control > >> system. We wouldn't have them if gentoo used an SCM that supports > >> true branches. There would be no need. > > > > Umm, I'm not an ebuild dev, but how would users mix stable and > > unstable packages in such a case? > > They would probably have to check out two trees. But the two trees > combined would likely be the same size as the single tree now, since a > lot of packages have at least two ebuilds available, one ~arch and one > stable. > > The real showstopper in my mind is that having a single ~arch and a > single stable tree means you can't selectively stable things on > different architectures at different times.
Agreed, the main advantage of a proper vcs would be that the ancestry between different ebuild versions would be visible. This would make it even possible to merge back working changes from a testing version to a stable version without gambling that it will work. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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