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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:09:31 +0200 |
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Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote: |
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> "fact": Gentoo's policy is to generate patches that can be send |
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> upstream |
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> background: Gentoo does basically only Linux, and most developers hate |
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> anything which [[ $(uname -s) != Linux ]], so patchesare usually aimed |
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> at building, or architectural problems (pps, arm, mips, amd64, etc.) |
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> Given that some the platforms we use (AIX for example) will probably |
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> never really be supported by most upstreams, we can relax the patch |
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> strategy. |
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do they reject the patches? or apply them with out really supporting |
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[[ $(uname -s) != Linux ]] ? |
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matt |
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