On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 08:33:05 -0800 ""Paweł Hajdan, Jr."" <phajdan...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Why not allow maintainers to drop redundant stable and even ~arch > keywords from their packages? We already do that to a great extent; only removing the last keyword present is a bad idea, because in that case the package would need to be masked to indicate its brokenness. Otherwise repoman will warn... ;) > Then these old ebuilds will stay with _only_ slow arch keywords. We're already doing this too, that's not the problem in that thread; the problem is that ebuilds stay behind (regardless of dropping keywords), because they block progress as well as require extra maintenance. > If they were working back then, they will continue to work now, since > there are not that many changes to break things as opposed to > faster-moving arches. That's a generalization, I can just as well claim here that if a change does break something that it takes longer for that change to be fixed; especially when we're talking about slow architectures. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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