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On Thursday 14 August 2003 01:35, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2003-08-13 at 18:17, Heinrich Wendel wrote: |
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> > If it is a waste of developer resources, tell me why there is at least |
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> > one thread every month about such a system in forums, and why every |
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> > distro (meaning debian, suse, mandrake, redhat ...) has such a system? |
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> They are all also binary distributions and have complete control over |
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> the content they decide to include in their systems. They also only |
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> have to spend developer mindshare on exactly one version of each |
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> application per release. This is quite a bit easier than the multitudes |
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> of versions we have of some applications in the portage tree. I tend to |
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> agree that this is a waste of time that could be better spent elsewhere, |
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> at least in its current implementation. |
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This has nothing to do with being a binary distri. You are right at the second |
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point for suse,redhat,mandrake, but not for debian. I would say better do the |
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work now, it will be a lot of mork work to do it later. |
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mfg, Heinrich :) |
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