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On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:17, Heinrich Wendel wrote: |
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> If it is a waste of developer resources, tell me why there is at least one |
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> thread every month about such a system in forums, and why every distro |
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> (meaning debian, suse, mandrake, redhat ...) has such a system? |
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They are all also binary distributions and have complete control over |
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the content they decide to include in their systems. They also only |
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have to spend developer mindshare on exactly one version of each |
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application per release. This is quite a bit easier than the multitudes |
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of versions we have of some applications in the portage tree. I tend to |
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agree that this is a waste of time that could be better spent elsewhere, |
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at least in its current implementation. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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