Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> ... >> > I STRONGLY beg to disagree! The "~amd64" notation is used to ACCEPT a >> > package even though it is (still) classified as UNSTABLE. >> >> This is package-manager terminology [...] > > No it's USER terminology. It's what users are confronted with when they > set-up their Portage configuration and when they deal with commands like > "emerge", "equery", and ilk.
So it is not package-manager terminology, but the terminology which is used by users when they use the package-manager. I cannot see any difference, but it doesn't matter. This discussion leads to nothing. > Simply due to USER EXPECTATION the term "unstable" HAS to be > the opposite of "isstable" Not in gentoo. There ARCH is called the stable keyword and ~ARCH is called the unstable keyword. Again, this discussion leads to nothing. I will stop it here.
