On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:23:59AM +0100, Richard Brown wrote: > Also, I think you seem to be suggesting that gentoo is so well tested > that once something's marked stable, there's no point in testing it.
A very good point. Just last week the *stable* perl cairo bindings were broken by a x11-libs/cairo bump. We caught this however and noticed that the new perl cairo bindings worked. Those were then stabilized at the same time and users now have a working cairo. What would have happened if that hadn't happened? Any package that depended on dev-perl/Cairo would've been broken. The lesson to learn is that once something is stable doesn't mean it's always stable. If a user finds out that way and files a bug, chances are greater that he'll get a dev-perl/Cairo that works with the new cairo version soon, rather than a dev-perl/Cairo version that breaks immediately. What would you rather have?
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