> If you don't use the ~arch flag it's as stable, if not > more so than any other distro's stable version.
This has niggled me for a while... Are the ~arch flags intended to denote the stability of the ebuilds or the stability of the packages? To me it makes more sence for them to denote ebuild stability since software developers already have their own mechanisms for telling us which software they recomend as stable (even and odd version numbers etc) and I think they should know best about the software they wrote? e.g. I was quite happy to find that mutts 1.5 branch ebuild has been marked as stable (Their developer branch last time I looked) which suggests that infact gentoo doesn't have a policy for marking stable software, apart from the ebuilds themselves. (Somthing I would really be happy with since I much appreciate being given a choice about what versions I run.) Is this all clearly specified somewhere, if so can someone give a pointer to the document, else should it be made more clear to people, since I guess their may be others who arn't sure how they should be inturpreted? thanks, Robert -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
