On 09/23/2013 02:46 PM, Alexis Ballier wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:25:40 +0300 > Samuli Suominen <ssuomi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> profiles.desc status is about how repoman is used to scan KEYWORDS, >> and those arch maintainers with only ~arch keywording use `repoman >> --include-dev` so changing the status from 'dev' to 'stable' won't >> gain anything scanning wise > > not entirely true: repoman is for _every_ dev. > facts are explained here: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/76909 > > in practice, profiles.desc and arch/~arch are orthogonal. >
Yes in practice they are orthogonal. One could argue that all profiles should be marked 'stable' in order to improve the overall dependency coverage and stability because, lets face it, very few devs run repoman -d. -- Regards, Markos Chandras - Gentoo Linux Developer http://dev.gentoo.org/~hwoarang
