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To whom it may concern: |
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I'm really concerned about the number of ebuilds that are rapidly |
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becoming out of date. I started using Gentoo, in part, because of the |
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currency of its packages and the ease of updates. While I understand |
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that users can submit upgrade requests via bugs.gentoo.org, few package |
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maintainers seem to be responding to these. I'm sure I'm not alone in |
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worrying that Gentoo packages will go the way of Debian: "dedicated" |
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package maintainers that update once in a blue moon. Gentoo has, I |
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would say, an even more elegant system than apt-get; please don't let it |
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go to waste on antiquated ebuilds. |
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So this doesn't happen, was can we users do, proactively, to help |
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developers? Clearly filing "please update" bugs isn't enough. I don't |
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want to just complain; I want to help. What can we do? Thanks for your |
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time and hard work! |
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al3x payne |
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e: al3x@××××.net |
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w: http://www.al3x.net |
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p: 202.841.4706 |
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