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"Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o> posted |
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474D53CA.7060101@g.o, excerpted below, on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 |
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12:40:58 +0100: |
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> Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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>> How the recent changes happened to allow USE flag descriptions in |
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>> metadata.xml (which I'm not taking any position on now) gave me an |
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>> idea. The Linux kernel requires that any needed documentation accompany |
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>> all changes requiring said documentation -- part of the source-code |
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>> patch must apply to the Documentation/ directory. Should we require |
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>> that before you commit any changes, you (or someone) write the |
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>> documentation for them and commit it or submit a patch at the same |
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>> time? |
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> We're not talking about ebuilds here, are we? So what ARE we talking |
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> about? |
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Agreed with hkBst and Ciaranm on this one. |
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Donnie, I'm sure you have the scope of what you intend to apply this to |
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firmly in your mind, but it's not at all clear from your post what it |
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is. Ebuilds? Doesn't make sense with changelog already there and |
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generally used (when folks don't forget or screw the format and therefore |
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the parsing thereof). Eclasses? OK, that makes more sense, but is that |
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what you intended? Gentoo sponsored projects such as portage? Isn't |
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that stepping on the various project's toes and don't most of them have |
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such requirements in place formally or not as it is? Something else? |
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Some combination of the above? |
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It's kinda hard to discuss such a proposal without knowing where it is |
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going to be applied, or to read such discussion without being sure |
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everybody has the same target in mind (maybe it was discussed on IRC and |
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since I don't normally do that I missed it... seems I'm not the only one, |
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tho), and what it may be. |
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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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