On 22 August 2013 01:19, Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Is there an alternative? afaik a profile can be either stable,dev or >> exp. I can't see how we can implement something between >> stable and dev. And what would that represent? It may or may not be >> stable? If this is the case, then I believe ~arch is more preferred. > > I haven't read much into it, but Fedora has a concept of "Secondary > Architectures." I think it would make sense if we could keep stable > keywords for them, but not prevent maintainers from needing to wait on > them to stabilize other packages.
I don't see how that would work. You can't remove older versions unless a newer one is stabilized, or you'd break the tree. One option I see is to limit the amount of packages with stable keywords to a select list, e.g. @system and closely related packages, and refuse stable keywords for GUI toolkits and their desktop reverse dependencies and the like. Ago is doing a fantastic job, but it would be good to lower his work-load and reduce the bus factor problem. -- Cheers, Ben | yngwin Gentoo developer
