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From: George Prowse <cokehabit@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:44:05
Message-Id: 36babadf0605170937q3c64e867neb8a85e6ecf1760f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by Stephen Bennett
1 On 17/05/06, Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Wed, 17 May 2006 15:57:51 +0100
4 > "George Prowse" <cokehabit@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >
6 > > So good working practice is to introduce a variable where breakages
7 > > could come from two directions rather than stick with what works? Let
8 > > the project mature before asking for changes from the Gentoo side.
9 >
10 > That paragraph makes no sense. I don't see what you're trying to say.
11 >
12
13 What it is saying is why introduce anything or change anything just for your
14 package? Why introduce the possibility of a problem on either the program or
15 the tree side?
16
17 So far you have failed to give one proper reason for why a change should be
18 made.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>