NEWS item for de-stabled games
Title: No stable KEYWORDS for Gentoo Games
Author: David Seifert < s...@gentoo.org >
Content-Type: text/plain
Posted: 2017-11-19
Revision: 1
News-Item-Format: 1.0
Display-If-K eyword: amd64 x86
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). If
you have any of these stable games packages installed, you will have
to add them to /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/ manually.
Failures related to missing stable KEYWORDS will show up like
The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed:
(see "package.accept_keywords" in the portage(5) man page for
more details)
# required by @selected
# required by @world (argument)
=games-action/0verkill-0.16-r4 ~amd64
While we 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.
