On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 03:03:21PM +0000, Roy Bamford wrote: > > So, I guess this means that the quality of the ~arch tree is supposed > > to > > be somewhat lower than the quality of the stable tree. > > > > William > > > > > > William, > > I've been running ~arch everywhere since May 2002 and had exactly > two major issues. They were :- > Xorg going modular ... which I was aware of before it happened and > expat which came as a surprise while I was dealing with modular > Xorg. > > There have been some minor inconviences along the way too but > problems running ~arch have reduced over the years. > > Nobody should run Gentoo at all in production unless they build > and test packages offline before pushing the binaries to production. > Then they can run whatever they want. > Every Gentoo install is different and very few possible > combinations are actually tested. > > By all means lower the bar for ~arch. Say, to "builds and works for > me, needs more testing". The down side is that it will create more > bug reports and more work, so it may only exchange one problem > for another.
I think there's some confusion here. I'm not trying to change the bar for ~arch, just trying to understand what that bar is supposed to be. William
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