On Saturday 25 February 2006 12:57, Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?': > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:57:43 -0600 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > ~arch means a package is a candidate for going into arch after > | > further testing, if said testing does not turn up new bugs. This > | > means that both the ebuild *and* the package should be likely to be > | > stable. > | > | So, betas shouldn't ever be ~arch? Or is your definition of stable > | broad enough to include betas? > > Entirely dependent on the upstream. I've had Vim beta releases in > ~arch, for example, because I'm confident in upstream's ability to do > beta releases without screwing up.
So, it's based on the collective opinion of the gentoo developers? Wouldn't it be better to put that in the hands of the gentoo user? > The -* abuse is one of the many things on QA's list of "stuff we want > to get fixed". However, it's considered extremely low priority on > existing packages. As it should be, since there are well-known user work-arounds. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
