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On 17/08/2011 07:16 ??, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Markos Chandras |
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> <hwoarang@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Personally, I want to shrink portage. There is no way for 250 |
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>> listed developers ( I would be glad if 100 of us were really active |
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>> ) to maintain thousands of ebuilds. I have already said that many |
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>> many times and I will say it again. We need to stop pretending that |
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>> everything is fine. We need to support only the packages that we |
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>> can *really* support and lets hope that more people will join in |
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>> when they see their packages going away. |
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> I think this depends on your definition of "support." If a package |
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> is stale but works fine, I'd prefer to just leave it alone. |
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> Obviously a package that is broken or has security bugs should be |
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> removed if nobody steps up. |
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I already said to keep around those which are abandoned but still work. |
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> I think the average level of quality in Gentoo is adequate. There |
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> are a few problem spots that crop up and should be dealt with. |
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> However, packages that are simply older than upstream aren't |
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> automatically a problem. |
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No, I disagree. The QA level is extremely poor especially in |
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unmaintained teams. I am not talking about old versions. I am talking |
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about *unmaintained* packages that nobody is every gonna fix. The bugs |
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constantly pile up, users get frustrated etc etc |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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