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On Saturday 04 August 2007, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 00:14 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > my point though wasnt to knock ati (although it was fun), the point was |
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> > that i do not believe any closed source driver in our tree should ever be |
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> > grounds for preventing stabilization of a kernel ebuild |
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> Yes, I don't like that it's closed source either. But closed or open |
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> source. It seems odd to have packages in our stable tree that don't work |
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> with each other? Doesn't that kinda go against the point of our stable |
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> tree? |
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then dont stabilize the closed source packages, problem solved |
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> I personally don't use genkernel, but I believe those updating their |
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> systems via emerge world, and then running genkernel later against the |
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> new kernel. Will likely have it fail, and then report bugs against our |
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> stable tree. |
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boy thats sure a pickle when we cant do s**t about it (maybe *this* time we |
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can fix it, but that is not always the case) |
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-mike |
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