** provide an old version of the tree
** cherry pick updates
*** this should be avoided at all cost since it can lead to various sorts of breakages (ebuild <-> ebuild, ebuild <-> eclass, ebuild <-> profile, eclass <-> profile interaction) --[[User:Tiziano|Tiziano]] ([[User talk:Tiziano|talk]]) 14:24, 3 January 2014 (CET)**** Yes, I agree. Nonetheless, we need the ''possibility'' to do cherry picking, for example to react on zero-day exploits. --[[User:Chrigu|Chrigu]] ([[User talk:Chrigu|talk]]) 19:53, 5 January 2014 (CET)
* Support for a development, staging and production branch
** Ability to automatically sync from upstream