Olivier Crête wrote: > On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 12:21 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Dirkjan Ochtman wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 19:06, Alex Legler <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> What is the point of stabilizing it if users shouldn't use it as main >>>> interpreter? Just leave it in ~arch until it can be safely used. >>>> >>>> >>> Making it easily available so that people can port stuff, so that the >>> entire world may be able to use it as their main interpreter sooner? >>> >>> Seriously, it's out there, there's no reason to keep it from stable. >>> Just prevent people from making python invoke 3.x and everything will >>> be fine. >>> >> Isn't ~arch supposed to be for testing? Isn't that the point of having >> ~arch? >> > > ~arch is for testing ebuilds, not the upstream package > >
So it would be OK to mark something "stable" even tho portage itself doesn't work with it? Sorry, this makes no sense to me. I run stable for the most part and having a package that portage depends on that is not stable just sounds a little like putting the cart before the horse. See some of the other replies as to why this is a not so good idea. Dale :-) :-)