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From: Stroller <GentooGimp@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds not getting in :(
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 01:06:19
Message-Id: 49861.192.168.1.70.1051232506.squirrel@gentoo.lan
1 On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 04:50 am, George Shapovalov wrote:
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3 > On Wednesday 23 April 2003 17:32, Stroller wrote:
4 >> On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 02:17 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote:
5 >>> On Tuesday 22 Apr 2003 13:59, Frantz Dhin wrote:
6 >>>> ... maybe we could make a
7 >>>> new keyword? x86 for stable, ~x86 for unstable, and ^x86 for
8 >>>> lunatic?
9 >>> I couldn't agree more!
10 >> Me, either! I don't know that "lunatic" is the best word, but it
11 >> seems to me that an additional hierarchy [0] allows for a framework
12 >> more flexible & extensible for end lusers. As I understand it builds
13 >> with the
14 > Unfortunately this is not that easy. Just accepting ebuild in and
15 > letting them
16 > rot is either a dead-end or a security breach (or both :).
17 ....
18 > Please take a look at #1523 to see what's on the plate ;).
19 >> [1] Am I correctly abbreviating "^86, ^ppc or whatever" here?
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21 Yeah, sorry. I'm clearly not qualified to comment. I decided to make my
22 reply before reading others about multiple rsync servers &c. My main
23 reason for posting was to object to the suggestion of naming a USE flag
24 after a hypothetical Honda.
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26 I haven't had the chance to read your full proposal yet, but just the
27 title of "Distributed ebuild processing system" sounds inspiring - I
28 look forward to giving it my full attention, and eventually to seeing
29 the results.
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31 Stroller.
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