Subject: Three teir portage: stable, prestable, unstable?
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
Date: 2003-10-06 21:47:16 GMT (4 years, 39 weeks, 3 hours and 19 minutes ago)
Hi everyone, I'm sure this HAS to have been discussed before, and if it has, it was before my time. I'd like to hear peoples opinions and what the conclusion was from earlier discussions. Just to make everything clear, I will outline exactly what I have in mind. In my view, the portage tree would benefit from having the following: STABLE arch: Obvious realy, stable packages only. Considered a stable ebuild and stable software. PRESTABLE (perhaps called Testing?) ~arch: Only software considered stable but whos ebuild is considered unstable or just badly written. OpenOffice is a good example: 1.1 is a stable release but the ebuild contains warnings about the ebuild itself being alpha. UNSTABLE >arch (or some other symbol): Software stability takes precedence over ebuild stability here, eg a package whos ebuild was very small and perfectly writen but the software itself was considered unstable would be marked unstable and not prestable. Regards, Ian. -- gentoo-dev <at> gentoo.org mailing list