Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> said: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 08:15:32PM +0200, Auke Booij wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > What? I am talking about exotic arches and I didn't say to drop to > > > entire stable tree. Just to shrink it in order to keep it up to > > > date more easily > > > > But my question stands: what really is the advantage of having a > > stable tree, when you could better invest your time in keeping the > > testing tree up to date and working? Most production systems are > > running x86, right? Are stable versions of minority architecture > > installations really that much more stable than testing versions? > > Because a stable tree it is supposed to work. Testing tree on the other > hand is vulnerable to breakages from time to time. We can't always > ensure a working testing tree. We are people not machines. We tend to > brake things and this is way we have the testing branch.
also the stable tree implies security support (GLSAs etc).
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