On 2017-12-21 01:35, William Hubbs wrote: > ~arch *will* have breakages from time to time, sometimes major > breakages, until they are masked or fixed. We are not supposed to leave > major breakages there, but ~arch is definitely not for the faint of > heart. If you are using ~arch, you are expected to be a power user at > leasst and be able to recover if your system breaks. Production servers > should not be running ~arch at all. That's the whole reason ~arch > exists.
I don't agree with this. Yes, ~arch can break sometimes so you should be familiar with masking. But on the other hand: ~arch isn't a minefield. If you add something to the repository which is keyworded you should at least know that it builds and works in the default USE flag configuration. If you don't know and there's a chance to break something badly, drop keywords or add it with a mask. Breaking ~arch because a dev was unable to test for some reason is IMHO unacceptable -- even for ~arch. That's the whole reason why keywords/p.mask exist ;-) -- Regards, Thomas Deutschmann / Gentoo Linux Developer C4DD 695F A713 8F24 2AA1 5638 5849 7EE5 1D5D 74A5
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