On Sunday 21 November 2010 19:47:34 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, 21 Nov 2010, Markos Chandras wrote: > > If the majority of the devs ( at least of those who participate to > > this thread ) is positive, then I will commit a patch to devmanual > > and possibly migrate the cvs&svn sources pages into a single one. > > Just for the record, I'm not in favour of such a change. > > So far, the policy has been that KEYWORDS would reflect the stability > of the ebuild, whereas package.mask would indicate that the upstream > package is deemed unstable. Why should live ebuilds be handled in a > different way?
I see more keywords as reflecting the "level of testing of the package in our tree", which is zero for a live ebuild. > Also, for an ebuild with empty KEYWORDS, repoman will not indicate any > problems with dependencies. by default with a p.mask it doesnt either. A.
