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On 7/19/07, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) <hkBst@g.o> wrote: |
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> joshua jackson wrote: |
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> > Jakub Moc wrote: |
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> >> Petteri Rýty napsal(a): |
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> >>> Or just do it via package.use in profiles until IUSE defaults are |
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> >>> implemented. |
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> >>> Regards, |
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> >>> Petteri |
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> >> As noted before, they are implemented, just not allowed in the tree. |
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> >> Plus, what vapier said, this info belongs to the ebuilds, not to profiles. |
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> >> Wrt pidgin - seriously, what's the big issue here? Users can't use |
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> >> emerge -pv output and determine what they want, or? Will we bloat the |
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> >> profiles everytime someone forgets to enable a flag and goes complain |
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> >> upstream about a 'missing' feature? |
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> >> !DSPAM:469f3b40137571336712104! |
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> > Honestly..this is not something to get picky over jakub. Upstream was |
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> > nice and actually came and politely asked us to change the defaults to |
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> > what most people would consider sane (all protocols by default). As I |
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> > think most people emerging pidgin..would like to use any protocol by |
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> > default..not go..hey I don't have yahoo, I should check my use flags. |
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> > Which obviously hasn't happened as users pop up in #pidgin to ask why |
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> > the heck there isn't a yahoo account available. |
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> > This should be a nothing change to do. Its also working with upstream |
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> > and maintaining some good relationships here..and or help improve them |
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> > in general. That should in fact you know...be part of our goals....to |
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> > improve communications between Gentoo and other projects. |
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> Perhaps we also need to make it more clear where users can ask such |
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> Gentoo-specific questions about specific packages, so they don't need to go |
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> and annoy upstream. Associate an irc-channel with each package. Most packages |
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> have a herd associated with them which can belong to a project which could |
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> have an irc-channel where the relevant developers could be found and which can |
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> put common problems in its topic. Fallback for when no appropriate irc-channel |
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> can be found would be #gentoo. Currently it is usually difficult to find such |
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> irc-channels or to know if there is none and that your only option is #gentoo |
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> or #$upstream. It would also make it easier for users to start helping |
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> developers and eventually become developers themselves, since they won't need |
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> to search for a point of entry anymore. |
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Not sure if this fits in to what you're talking about, but I do know |
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that as myself a "would like to me maintainer someday", I'm somewhat |
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lost as to knowing how I can get involved and who I need to talk to. |
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Eric |
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> Marijn |
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