Fabian Groffen wrote: <snip>
There is one thing that I don't quite like: switching from arch to ~arch means after `emerge -e system` nearly any system package needs to be updated, that is quite a shame
This has to be done with a normal gentoo installation anyway. I think it is a small concern if any at all!
So the alternative is to switch from arch to ~arch in the post-sync stage. Thoughts here? Questioni is now how are we going to implement this, if we all agree this is the way to go? Do we agree in the first place?
Will it be more or less work for the prefix devs? If we implement this design but it is more work to do...is it really beneficial? will it actually get done? Also, I think that the docs will stay more current which means less work there. We need to define a process to update stable keywords. Maybe we can follow gentoo-x86 automagically on that one..but if we do, then the docs will get out of date again, because the process hasn't really changed. If system packages go stable automatically that is the same as what we have now.
The proposal needs some serious thought. However, I think it has potential and I like it.
-Jeremy -- [email protected] mailing list
