Arthur Zamarin <arthur...@gentoo.org> writes:

> Hi all, this will be a long mail, and might be confusing, I'll try to
> organize it, but this is a mess, so bear with me.

Absolutely - thanks for doing this. I'm going to split my replies with
alt subject to help keep it organised.

>
> As you all know, Gentoo supports many various arches, in various degrees
> (stable, dev, exp). Let me explain those 3 statuses fast:
>
> * stable arch - meaning we have stable profile for this arch, and stable
> keywords across base-system + varying degree of seriousness. We stable
> stuff after ~30 days in tree, and are mostly happy. For example the well
> known and common amd64 arch.

This mixes the notion of keywords vs profiles.

You can have a stable profile in profiles.desc without any stable
keywords at all.

'stable' in profiles.desc means we require CI to pass for its depgraph
consistency. 'dev' means we warn on it. 'exp' means it doesn't even show
up unless you opt-in with pkgcheck etc.

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