On Friday 11 January 2008, Kumba wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > that certainly sounds reasonable to me. if the stable cant be > > maintained, let the common workflow of developers transition it back to > > ~arch until someone has the time to keep arch usable. changing > > profiles.desc accordingly should be done ahead of time. perhaps a new > > category for profiles.desc ? "exp" for such ports ? i could see all > > *-fbsd ports being moved there. tweak repoman to be less verbose about > > dep issues for such profiles and we're set. > > Sounds like a plan. 'exp' would be the 'status' field?
yeah. i'll fork a new thread on the topic. > > i see dropping keywords as a very last resort. getting a port *back* > > into the tree is a *tremendous* amount of work (i went through it and it > > was hell), while keeping ~arch alive is a sliver of effort and generally > > not a blocker for package maintainers. > > Aye, I believe that was sh's removal and subsequent re-add? arm actually. i blame solar. thanks Kumba, i'd wager my left one that without you there would be no mips. -mike
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