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On Wednesday 25 August 2004 22:00, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> say: |
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> > Most distributions and ports systems tend to have a "freetype" package |
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> > for freetype 1.x and "freetype2" for 2.x. We consider this approach a |
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> > sign of a fundamentally broken package management system. |
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> Do we really want to admit that our package manager is broken? |
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That "admission" was allready made when development-sources was first |
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incarnated. Also the kernel is something different than freetype. The issue |
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is not with the package management system. The problem is in a big part |
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caused by the fact that people do not like to say 'emerge |
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\<vanilla-sources-2.5' to get the stable kernel. The kernel is a beast on |
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it's own and giving it some extra attention should not be a problem. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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