On Tue, 09 Sep 2014 19:12:28 +0000 hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Jauhien Piatlicki: > > > > When I accept ~arch I expect that no live ebuilds will be built. I > > think other gentoo users expect the same. > > Just because users are used to it doesn't make it better. How does it "make it better" for users that are used to what works well? > > Emerging live ebuild usually is quite a risky thing, so hiding such > > stuff behind dropped keywords is quite reasonable. > > That's why you can mask them. Masking is for packages that are known to be broken, not for risks. > Hiding useful information from users is not reasonable. Eh? Jauhien talks about hiding the visibility from the package manager. > The same flawed logic of empty KEYWORDS could actually be applied to > any ebuild variable. > You say "we can't test if it works for all these architectures > reliably and for every single commit". > Yeah, same goes for dependencies, license and even the description. > Because it's a live ebuild, all of them can change. KEYWORDS is no > special exception. KEYWORDS is a special exception because it involves arch testing.
