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On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 12:18:32 -0400 |
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"William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday, October 17, 2016 6:08:41 PM EDT Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 11:48:53 -0400 |
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> > "William L. Thomson Jr." <wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > > On Tuesday, October 18, 2016 4:18:51 AM EDT Kent Fredric wrote: |
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> > > > There's a lot of "but what if you care!??!" things, perhaps this may be |
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> > > > an important one to you, but some people care a lot about LICENSE and |
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> > > > some people just don't. |
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> > > |
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> > > Yes, and some care about what repo it comes from. Which is why portage now |
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> > > shows you what repo it comes from as part of merge output. This is really |
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> > > no different. |
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> > No. |
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> > Portage shows the repo it comes from because it is necessary for |
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> > the package specification to be unique, i.e. two repositories can |
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> > provide the same version of the same package. |
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> It does not have to show it for that function. Showing the repo is a visual |
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> thing for the user during merge output. Portage does not have to have ANY |
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> output to do its job. Visual output is a user thing. |
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Excuse me but what is your goal here? I stated the rationale for that |
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particular change. Your disagreement won't change why it was done. |
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I know that some Gentoo developers find that very hard to comprehend |
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but in most of the cases, the people directly involved in it happen to |
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know the rationale. Rationale is *why X did Y*, not *why I think that X |
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did Y, as long as it contradicts what X says*. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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