Re: how to contribute to use/slot deps: was Re: [gentoo-dev] Multiple Repo Support

[Dan Meltzer]

On 12/24/05, Curtis Napier <curtis119@g.o> wrote:
> Dan Meltzer wrote:
> > On 12/24/05, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >>On Fri, 23 Dec 2005 23:56:37 -0800 Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
> >>wrote:
> >>| It's really pretty simple- get off your butt and chip in if you want
> >>| it, else you're on _our_ timeline (eg, we implement it when we deem
> >>| it sane/ready to go).
> >>
> >>Is Portage development done to support the needs of those of us who
> >>provide the tree, or is the tree expected to be restricted to whatever
> >>Portage developers feel like implementing?
> >
> >
> > I'd say the latter.
> >
> > The tree is restricted to what is implemented in portage, and as it is
> > a volunteer organization, what is implemented is what the portage
> > dev's feel like implementing.
> >
> > If you want more to be implemented, submit patches.
> >
>
> hmmmmmmm, from reading the emails, bug reports and irc chats of portage
> devs, non-portage devs and end users I would say it's a little bit of
> both. The non-portage devs are using a tool provided by the portage devs
> that allows them to create the Gentoo distro. Those two teams work
> together to ensure the best possible tool. If the portage devs ONLY did
> what they felt like (or the opposite, only did what the other devs told
> them and ignored their own intimate knowledge of portage) then portage
> would not be where it is today. True developement is a subtle play of
> ideas back and forth between everyone involved resulting in an excellent
> piece of software.
>
<snip>

For the most part, yes.

However, following these same lists, one notices ciaranm always taking
potshots at the portage team, yet never contributing anything useful.
So my previous response was directed primarily at him.

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