On 08/21/2013 07:04 AM, Markos Chandras wrote:
Hi,
It's time of year again to consider moving a few arches to dev-only status.
I propose the following arches to lose their stable keywords
- s390
- sh
- ia64
- alpha
- m68k
- sparc
Mips, as you know, has been ~arch for a while and we've been doing just
fine with it.
We can't pretend, however, that this doesn't shift some burden to the
user. One example is perl where some modules need 5.12.4 (the current
stable) and cannot use 5.16.x (~arch). On mips you might emerge 5.16.3
only to hit a module later that insists on 5.12.4, thus requiring
downgrading. There are other examples where dependencies track stable
but not unstable. This is in addition to the usual breakage on the
bleeding edge.
If I get enough positive feedback on this, I will propose this in the
next Council's agenda.
Or no serious negative feedback. I don't think you will. I can support
this.
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