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On 30-09-2010 19:48:53 +0200, Al wrote: |
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> > Same for other apps, including other upstreams that are not Gentoo. With |
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> > this plan, the major bottleneck is you so you get to decide how fast you are |
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> > going to work on issues. Otherwise, the Gentoo Prefix devs (myself incl) are |
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> > your bottleneck and you can see that we don't need more stuff to do (230 |
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> > open bugs, maintaining tree, migrating packages, etc) |
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> It is indeed one of the ingenious things in Gentoo, that you have a |
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> full system to manage your personal overlay (distribution). You don't |
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> depend on upstream developers as the bottleneck. By this more people |
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> can learn how to work with patches and can emerge themself to future |
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> upstream devs. |
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> So where do you suggest to store the Cygwin distro? Is sourceforge |
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> still a good choice today? |
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Depends more on what you like to use. |
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Repoman understands 'cvs', 'svn', 'git', 'bzr' and 'hg'. |
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emerge --sync understands 'rsync', 'cvs', 'svn' and 'git'. |
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The latter is not necessarily a bottleneck, since a simple $VCS update |
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will do too. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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