On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:26:29 +0100 David Seifert <s...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Round 2 (with correct whitespace this time): > > Title: No stable KEYWORDS for Gentoo Games > Author: David Seifert <s...@gentoo.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > Posted: 2017-11-20 > Revision: 1 > News-Item-Format: 1.0 > Display-If-Keyword: amd64 x86 > > As the Games team does not have enough manpower to keep tabs on all > games packages, we have dropped all ebuilds maintained by the games > project to unstable KEYWORDS (without those required by other stable > 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 as > > 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. We > welcome contributions from outsiders willing to polish up the games > landscape in Gentoo via the Proxy Maintainers. What does it mean for the future? Should not users bother to test & write stabilization request bugs for games anymore? Or stabi requests will still be accepted? Robert -- Róbert Čerňanský E-mail: ope...@tightmail.com Jabber: h...@jabber.sk
