On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Tom Wijsman <[email protected]> wrote: > While I don't, and asked it just because of the large amount; it > appears from some things lately, and not just OpenRC, that there is a > certain group that regards ~arch as some kind of new stable.
People have been talking about that for years. I think that years ago there were some issues with stable breaking when ~arch did not, but those are largely behind us. Then there were situations like it taking FOREVER to get openrc into stable. I just don't see any drivers to stay away from stable now. ~arch is also a lot more stable than it used to be, so more are likely to run it. However, I don't think that is a reason that we should be timid about breaking things there (within reason). > > Let me dig up an example... > > Our last sys-kernel/gentoo-sources stabilization was 3 months ago: I don't really see a problem with stable package being all of 3 months old. Contrast that with youtube-dl which pull from ~arch and rebuild about 3x/week. If somebody needs a newer kernel they can run it. I needed something so I accepted <3.10, and it looks like I'll either have to accept <3.11 now or just live with 3.9 until stable catches up. I don't really see a problem with either unless I'm looking to fix some particular bug. Rich
