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On 3/21/06, Bret Towe <magnade@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> perhaps having some proxys of a sort that accept patchs and such |
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> from trusted users that would commit fixes to portage would help. |
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> similiar to the kernel format that way users can 'commit'/help out quickly |
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> without having to go thru the long process of becoming a dev |
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That is imo a key feature: Get contributions back to the users easily |
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It doe snot need to be the portage-tree .. but an official |
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user-overlay or contrib-overlay would definitely help to get a lot of |
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people involved. |
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Other projects are providing similar infrastructure with very good |
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results, see the Arch User Repository for example: |
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http://aur.archlinux.org |
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It would be great to have something like that available for gentoo-users. |
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Regards, |
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Stefan |
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