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From: Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>
To: aballier@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, "Tomáš Chvátal" <scarabeus@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-libs/libva: ChangeLog libva-1.0.10.ebuild
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 16:26:30
Message-Id: BANLkTi=aSoGM+nHS9jdEOfTHzhYEuhbpuQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-libs/libva: ChangeLog libva-1.0.10.ebuild by Matt Turner
1 2011/4/29 Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o>:
2 > 2011/3/9 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>:
3 >> As for the reasons: "its the fdo version + a debian/patches dir with, heh,
4 >> some fixes and improvements I'm using..."
5 >
6 > So, the SDS version is simply the freedesktop version with a few
7 > patches on top? So, the freedesktop version is actually... upstream?
8 >
9 > We patch plenty of things in Gentoo. Why are we depending on SDS to do
10 > that for us?
11 >
12 > Matt
13
14 So...? Why are we shipping this version when it seems to be just the
15 upstream version + patches? People on the X11 team already have commit
16 access to freedesktop, and by extension, libva, so if the patches are
17 reasonable we could just commit them ourselves. Why are we bothering
18 with this SDS version?
19
20 You weren't kidding about not being on IRC. !seen aballier says 7 months ago.
21
22 Matt

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