On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 6:44 AM Grand Duet <grand.d...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Before switching python_targets for the first time, you could use your > news system to inform Gentoo users that > 1) you are switching python_targets > 2) it may be "a bit premature",
If anybody thought that it was a bit premature it wouldn't have been done at all. > and so, those who really want to have a stable Gentoo system should > 1) do such and such changes to their config files and > 2) wait about 3 months untill all the dust will settle. Did this even impact the stable branch? I thought this was only deployed to ~arch. If you want stable Gentoo, you probably shouldn't have edited make.conf to set your keywords to ~arch. > P.S. The said above together with the recent Gentoo signing key issue > and sometimes "corrupted" daily portage snapshots that I download by > emerge-webrsync make me think that even so called "stable" Gentoo > lacks quality control and cannot be considered as stable and suted for > those that really need a stable system. Well, most people stick with RHEL/CentOS or Debian Stable for that kind of experience, where changes only happen on releases with significant QA, and backporting of fixes. That simply isn't the kind of experience Gentoo aims to deliver. -- Rich
