Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 21:30 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> Isn't the solution to have 3 levels: 'testing', 'probation' & 'stable' ? > > There are 3 levels: > > Masked, ~ARCH, and ARCH. > > Masked you can install if you want, like gnome-2.14, but it's your own > fault if it kills your system.
== Upstream unstable, ebuild unstable. > > ~ARCH you can install if you want, it may do bad things, but if so > you're probably the first to know about it. File a bug and help move it > to ARCH. == Upstream stable, ebuild testing. > > ARCH is good for everyone else. == Upstream stable, ebuild stable So it's not just the software that needs to be stable, the ebuild needs to be tested too. -- Naga -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
