On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > When in the last 16 years was this 2 year period of running stable? > The general state of QA has varied quite a bit over that time. >
I would say 3 or 4 years ago, roughly. > running unstable systemd has been Running unstable doesn't mean being stupid. > If unstable never breaks chances are we aren't actually using it for its > intended purpose, not that we > should be deliberately breaking things. There's this idea that unstable should break. But the initial idea was that unstable is what should be sent straight to stable, barring the occasional mistake. Unstable was never meant for ebuilds in development and very much in flux because of that. That's what package masks are for.