On 06.07.2011 22:45, William Hubbs wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:17:28PM +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: >> On 06.07.2011 21:55, William Hubbs wrote: >>> All, >>> >>> from my previous discussion, I am about to put a new virtual in the >>> tree. Do I need to use the same ~arch/30 day wait/stabilize cycle I >>> would normally use even though the default package the virtual will >>> bring in is stable everywhere? >>> >>> I'm thinking I can take the virtual straight to stable in this situation,, >>> but I want to be sure. >>> >> >> Nothing stable should be using the virtual at the time of commit so >> what's the benefit of going stable fast? Repoman should also be >> preventing commits straight to stable. I would stable the virtual at the >> same time as someone stable starts to use it (which probably means the >> 30 day period). > > Actually we could use it faster than that. I want to add a > virtual/service-manager (see http://bugs.gentoo.org/373843) for > sys-apps/openrc and sys-apps/systemd then add it to the system set, so > it would be used immediately everywhere. > > That will also make it possible for folks using systemd to remove > openrc from their systems if they want to do so, which they > can't right now because baselayout has a PDEPEND on openrc. >
I don't see why one would need to hurry with changing the system set. On the contrary I would proceed more cautiously than usual. Regards, Petteri
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