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Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> posted 4554F3BD.9080204@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:48:45 -0800: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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> There have already been bugs opened about it (and closed), we're waiting |
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> for a patch from someone who cares because we have higher priority things |
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> to do. Most of the applications now have descriptions gotten from a |
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> script, but libraries, protocol headers, fonts, etc lack them. It is |
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> nontrivial to script the remaining poorly described packages because they |
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> lack man pages from which the descriptions could be pulled. |
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> Again, we will be happy for this to happen but we cannot commit the time |
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> necessary to do it. |
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Fair enough. For those with the skills to do so, I'd rather you spend |
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time getting the ebuild for the latest <whatever> out and debugged anyway. |
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=8^) |
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I take it therefore that there's no page on x.org where all this info is |
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in pretty much one place? If I were interested in doing the research and |
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collating the info, from your experience working with them, would this be |
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something they'd find useful, as well as Gentoo? I can't code the stuff, |
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but if it's waiting for someone to go thru some lists and wikis and |
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whatever and create some sort of ordered list with descriptions, that I |
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might be able to do, and of course the same list could be used to generate |
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the missing description patches for Gentoo's packages as well. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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