On 22 August 2013 13:17, Michael Weber <x...@gentoo.org> wrote:
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> Having a mixed setup isn't that absurd as you want it to be.
> And forcing users to not use it renders all package.{accepted_,}keywords
> granularity moot.
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> It's like nailing them to debian stable or debian testing w/o backports
> or anything.
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> Please stop dooming this possibility. Mixing together software versions
> isn't that much of a magic as you make of it.I said that it is a combination not well tested so we do not encourage this. Users are free to do whatever they want. When did I say the opposite? However they should not expect much support if they use a mixed system and they run into troubles. Someone who does that, should know what he is doing and be prepared to run into problems. And I will stop here because this discussion is off-topic. > >> It's also a bit ehm, funny, to give them a stable stage3 and then tell >> them that for everything else, please use ~arch. > > (I'm not saying that it doesn't hurt in some places, but it's > manageable, as is living on arches with stable core and very few stable > leave packages, like I've been doing on sparc, ppc and arm.) > This is yet to be decided. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
