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Dne Pá 1. února 2013 18:40:32, Vaeth napsal(a): |
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> > [...] and if anyone wants to start where we left he |
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> > can pick out the ebuild from attic and put into his own overlay where |
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> > it might work for him or even put it back to tree fixed. |
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> And this is exactly what *cannot* be done after a while: |
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> The ebuild is still available by CVS (or maybe git in future), |
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> but if there were already a lot of gentoo patches, the tarball with these |
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> patches is lost forever. If even upstream is dead, not even the main |
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> tarball will be available anymore. |
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Oh but it can mostly these archaic packages do not have patchsets. You still |
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can count the packages using huge patchsets using just your hands. |
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Also there is proposal to create git repository with patches exactly for this |
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purposes. So bribe infra people with cookies to focus on it and you will get |
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your stuff done :-) |
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> > Go for it, i wrote exactly what to do, create vcs/tracker/homepage and |
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> > it can stay. |
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> And what if somebody decides to do so in a year? |
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If you are person who didn't touch his Gentoo box within a year hire some guy |
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to maintain it. Seriously after a year without syncing and checkign the masks |
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it is just walking security hole. |
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> E.g. if somebody gets some hardware in a year and needs support of |
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> a package which was removed? |
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Well we never remove stuff right away, so we can say someone get hardware that |
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is at least decade old, honestly just obtain distros build around such HW |
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(like debian stable). |
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> Or if he was not yet a gentoo user at the time when the package was |
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> removed (or absent/busy for a long period)? |
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Well he would found out after sync that it is removed, but he still can have |
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it on his system, not available package does not mean that you have to |
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uninstall it from that box. |
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> Then he is lost unless a distribution with bigger resources as gentoo |
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> has decided to keep the package. Not really a selling point for gentoo. |
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Gentoo is not a distro with bigger resources, there is only few developers |
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working on everything (yeah we show that 250 devs are still around, but |
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question is how much of those are active). If you want real support you can |
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always go for paid distros (thats their purpose, to support stuff where OSS is |
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out of loop). |
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PS: threading is broken in your mail client. or I dunno why this reply |
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appeared out of thread. |
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