[arch-general] can you only test certain packages?

[Thomas Bächler]

Am 21.05.2010 15:18, schrieb Caleb Cushing:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> As far as I know, perl is "alone" in testing, so you should be in the clear.
>>
> 
> well it doesn't depend on anything but there are new perl-* packages
> that need to depend on it. I just don't feel like updating my kernel
> or xorg to test perl. but from what people are saying the automation
> of grabbing any updates to a subset of the packages in those repos is
> not possible.
> 

No, there is no way to automate this process. We would need to split
testing into several topic-repositories to do that.

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