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On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:59:30PM +0200, Frantz Dhin wrote: |
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> I feel your pain. Usually it takes several weeks before the ebuild |
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> updates I submit get accepted, and if at all, they usually they get |
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> accepted unaltered, which makes those weeks a waste of time. |
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> I wish stuff could get into the unstable branch of Gentoo much easier. I |
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> would like to see some people with freedom to roam the tree accept |
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> things into unstable, and not have everything depend on if a branch |
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> maintainer has time or interest currently or not. Gentoo is supposed to |
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> be bleeding edge, but fact is that 30-35% of the packages in portage |
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> tree are at least one version behind. A too large share of developer |
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> resources external to the official gentoo developer team remains largely |
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> unused. |
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I'll add a "me too", it feels like getting a patch inside the kernel and |
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I've given up on submitting new things until the (at least precieved) |
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situation improves. |
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It cant be testing what takes so long.. you just have to see the masked - |
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unmasked - ooops masked again dances or things that just dont compile |
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avi-xmms or broken sandbox ebuilds like metakit. |
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I'm not blaming anyone, it's just that I would had never expected would have |
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to use stow to keep up to date with gentoo. :/ |
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