On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 20:49 +0200, Sven Köhler wrote: > Well, but some people here claim, that the ebuilds are not tested that > much, before they go into portage. Well, that's another decision: what > should gentoo's quality be like?
Actually, it was more a discussion of older ebuilds. If I put an ebuild into the tree today, using one of the eclasses that uses lots of "do*" stuff and relies on it not being an error condition today, then the change is made at a later date, how am I going to know that my ebuild suddenly broke? As you can guess, the answer is "when you get a bug report" which definitely isn't the optimal answer. I'm refraining from the "quality" discussion simply because we're pretty well aware that we have two pretty distant camps within Gentoo these days and I'd prefer not start another of the "stable vs. ricer" threads while I'm busy working on release stuff... :P -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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