171118 David Seifert wrote:
> As the Games team does not have enough manpower to keep tabs on all
> games packages, we have dropped all games-* ebuilds to unstable
> keywords (modulo those required by stable non-games packages).
> 
> While I accept that this will cause some irritation for the community,
> pretending we have a well supported games collection by having a wealth
> of stable games packages is misleading at best. By having 99% of games
> be unstable, we convey the expectation users should have - namely that
> games in Gentoo are not part of crucial Tier 1 packages.
> 
> We welcome contributions from outsiders willing to polish up the games
> landscape in Gentoo.

Isn't this overkill in the absence of widespread bug reports for games ?
'Stable' doesn't mean well-maintained,
but in the tree for some time & no serious bug reports.

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