From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>, Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>
Subject: Re: We need an RFC procedure [Re: Services can now have a default value]
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 23:23:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877f18bn78.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a86vig6d.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Petter <petter@mykolab.ch> skribis:
>
>> If I may make a suggestion, coming from a place of ignorance.
>>
>> How about a stable branch that would be opt-in?
>
> What would be stable in the “stable branch”, packages or Guix? :-)
>
> A branch where Guix itself is stable would be nice, though it would need
> careful merging from master regularly.
This would make sense. It would require some restraint in moving
packages to different modules or breaking some underlying package
features, which would cause ABI breakage.
I do think it would be possible, though.
> A branch where packages are stable (à la Debian stable) would be too
> much work (I’m even skeptical it makes any sense given that many
> declared and undeclared security vulnerabilities get patched everytime a
> piece of software is released…).
Yeah, that wouldn’t make sense. It’s hard enough to deal with security
issues in current software in a timely fashion.
--
Ricardo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-22 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-15 22:51 Services can now have a default value Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-15 23:11 ` ng0
2017-04-17 11:56 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-19 23:22 ` ng0
2017-04-20 8:53 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-20 9:09 ` ng0
2017-04-23 10:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-17 11:58 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-19 14:42 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-04-19 15:18 ` ng0
2017-04-19 21:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
[not found] ` <8737d32abz.fsf@zancanaro.id.au>
2017-04-20 8:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-20 10:19 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-04-21 22:04 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-21 23:41 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-04-22 0:46 ` We need an RFC procedure [Re: Services can now have a default value] ng0
2017-04-22 7:12 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-22 10:08 ` ng0
2017-04-22 22:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-23 10:13 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2017-04-23 12:02 ` ng0
2017-04-27 13:29 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-27 16:37 ` Petter
2017-05-02 12:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-05-22 21:23 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2017-05-22 22:45 ` Leo Famulari
2017-04-23 11:52 ` ng0
2017-05-13 10:39 ` Services can now have a default value Carlo Zancanaro
2017-05-13 22:53 ` Carlo Zancanaro
2017-05-15 12:48 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-04-22 14:46 ` Christopher Allan Webber
2017-04-22 14:59 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2017-04-22 22:57 ` Ludovic Courtès
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