On pon, 2017-07-31 at 10:52 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 9:05 PM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Alec Warner <anta...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 3:44 AM, Andreas K. Huettel < > > > > dilfri...@gentoo.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2017, 01:22:44 CEST schrieb Peter Stuge: > > > > > > > > > > I hold a perhaps radical view: I would like to simply remove stable. > > > > > > > > > > I continue to feel that maintaining two worlds (stable+unstable) > > > > > carries with it an unneccessary cost. > > > > > > > > > > > > > That's not feasible. It would kill off any semi-professional or > > > > professional > > > > Gentoo use, where a minimum of stability is required. > > > > > > > > > So my argument (for years) has been that this is the right thing all > > > > along. > > > > > > If people want a stable Gentoo, fork it and maintain it downstream of the > > > rambunctious rolling distro. > > > > > > > What is the difference between forking the repository, and just > > maintaining a keyword inside the same repository, besides the former > > being easier to integrate into QA/etc? > > > > People who are interested in working on stable already do so, and > > people who are not for the most part shouldn't be bothered by it. In > > the cases where stable has caused issues with maintainers the council > > has generally dropped arches from stable support so that repoman won't > > complain when packages are removed. > > > > Sorry, to be clear the conclusion I was hoping to draw is that one has 2 > repos instead of 1. > > 1) Rolling. > 2) Stable. > > Rolling is typical ~arch Gentoo. People in rolling can do whatever they > want; they can't affect stable at all. > > Stable is an entirely separate repo, a fork, where CPVs are pulled from > Rolling into Stable. If Stable wants to keep a gnarly old version of some > package around; great! But the rolling people don't have to care.
I was considering this but it won't work for users who mix stable and ~arch. While we don't officially support this, they're a significant portion of our user base and they usually have good reasons for doing that. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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