Hi, On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 07:01:21 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:12 AM, Alexander Berntsen <berna...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > When I do QA in projects I'm involved with (at least outside of > > Gentoo), we don't do it live on end-user systems. I'll leave the > > details as an exercise for the Gentoo developer. > > > > People who run ~arch are not really end-users - they're contributors > who have volunteered to test packages.
I strongly disagree with you. We do not use stable even at enterprise grade production systems and HPC setups. Stable is just too freaking old in order to be usable for our purposes, not to mention that it lacks many packages at all. We tried stable several times, it just freaks out admins (including myself) too badly or results in horrible mess of stable and unstable which is less stable that unstable setups. I do not use stable at workstations and personal setups as well. Nevertheless I consider stable useful as stabilization process gives more testing for packages (and some fixes are forward ported to unstable versions). Of course I understand that there are people using it and I try to support stable packages as well, but these versions are mostly a burden and I can't really understand stable users. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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