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On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 06:32:38PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 17 May 2006 11:23:19 +0200 Wernfried Haas <amne@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | We really should figure that stuff out before we start integrating an |
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> | externally written package manager we have no influence on whatsoever |
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> How much influence does your typical Gentoo developer or user have over |
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> the development of Portage? Please consider long-standing feature |
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> requests such as :slot and [use] deps in your answer. |
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That's not the point as i wasn't talking about single developers but |
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Gentoo as an organisation. Paludis is not in any way under Gentoo's |
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control. If the paludis devs decide to change the license for paludis |
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1.0 to a commercial one, Gentoo would be unable do anything about it |
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(except fork the last GPLed version). If the paludis devs decide to |
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terminate all ricers with RTFM, Gentoo can't do anything about it. I |
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guess the list could be continued with other examples. |
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I'm not saying the paludis devs may do such a thing, but they could |
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and Gentoo couldn't do anything about it. |
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As long a project is within Gentoo, every developer does at least have |
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some influence, be it by voting the council or whatsoever. |
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As for your long standing feature requests, this has nothing to do |
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with the issue, unless you're trying to bash the portage team, which |
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has nothing to do with this thread. |
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cheers, |
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Wernfried |
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Wernfried Haas (amne) - amne at gentoo dot org |
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