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Ramon van Alteren wrote: |
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> Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>> Ramon van Alteren wrote: |
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>>> Well, basically he's right. Catalyst is a build tool that wraps all |
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>>> the stuff you need to do when building packages in a chroot, with |
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>>> some additional features |
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>>> You don't need it.... it just saves time and a lot of work writing |
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>>> your own scripts to manage the environment, and it's semi-maintained. |
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>> You have an odd definition of "maintained". Chris (catalyst lead) and |
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>> I (general code monkey) are actively working on catalyst. We just |
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>> don't care much about features that don't directly benefit release |
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>> building, since that's what catalyst's primary function is. If someone |
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>> asks for a feature that doesn't affect building releases and submits |
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>> code, we're very likely to throw it in. |
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> Please, that's not what I meant, accept my apologies if that's what came |
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> across. |
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> What I meant with semi-maintained is that it is maintained as an |
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> internal tool for building gentoo-releases and not as a general |
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> system-images buildtool. |
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> Reading it again I should have said that more clearly, sorry. |
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That's *very* different from "semi-maintained" :) |
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Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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Gentoo Linux Developer Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator |
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