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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> posted |
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200803302039.14615.vapier@g.o, excerpted below, on Sun, 30 Mar |
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2008 20:39:14 -0400: |
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> there is no package-manager specificness here. it's already completely |
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> doable from a user perspective, just having it in the ebuild makes my |
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> life and users' lives easier. i'm using it in packages that tend to |
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> have a lot of extraneous patchsets associated with them. the random |
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> patches were punted from ebuilds and now it's up to the user to maintain |
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> the feature sets. |
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I've been working with upstream, various users, and Dan Rahn from |
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OpenSuSE (who has been absolutely great to work with, especially so since |
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he can do the coding I can't), on glib-2.16 and gcc-4.3 compatibility |
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patches for net-nntp/pan, and something like this would certainly make my |
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life a lot easier. FWIW the Gentoo bugs are 21160 and 214446, with half |
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the story on the pan-user list (which is developer oriented too right now |
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since the stable build is ancient so most users are on the beta releases |
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or SVN). |
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The point here though is that particularly for the glib patch, which has |
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undergone several rounds of testing and looks set for another round or |
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two at least, this user patch infrastructure would sure be nice! |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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