On 22 August 2013 12:24, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 6:19 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoar...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 22 August 2013 11:01, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> I think the result of a policy like this would be that stable keywords >>> would get dropped on most peripheral packages, but system packages >>> might still keep them. >> >> What's the point of that? Most users need more than what @system >> provides so after they deploy the 'stable' stage3 they will >> start pulling ~arch packages that were never tested against the stable >> tree. It so much better if stage3 was also ~arch. > > Do we actually have examples of this happening? I've never had > problems with a mix of stable and ~arch keywords. Granted, I'm not > running ~arch on most libs.
Wow! That is something we actively encourage people to avoid. Mixed systems are totally unsupported and I am sure quite a few bugs are closed as invalid when a mixed system is detected. It may work on regular basis but encouraging and supporting such configurations is definitely not desirable. It's also a bit ehm, funny, to give them a stable stage3 and then tell them that for everything else, please use ~arch. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
