On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 8:50 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Is there an alternative? afaik a profile can be either stable,dev or > exp. I can't see how we can implement something between > stable and dev. And what would that represent? It may or may not be > stable? If this is the case, then I believe ~arch is more preferred.
I haven't read much into it, but Fedora has a concept of "Secondary Architectures." I think it would make sense if we could keep stable keywords for them, but not prevent maintainers from needing to wait on them to stabilize other packages. I've run into issues when I simply wanted to fix a mips-specific problem and wound up spending inordinate amounts of time dealing with general ~arch issues. I'm worried that dropping stable keywords, while it'll make it seem like the architectures are in better shape since there are fewer bugs, will actually make using or developing them significantly worse.
