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Couldn't be silent in the light of such plead :). |
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On Sunday 21 April 2002 16:51, al3x payne wrote: |
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> To whom it may concern: |
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> I'm really concerned about the number of ebuilds that are rapidly |
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> becoming out of date. I started using Gentoo, in part, because of the |
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I bet you started with gentoo in the pre-1.0 era ;). |
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It is true that generally ebuilds are not getting much attention lately, as |
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developers are hardly finding time to address bugs and other important issues |
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(now that gentoo user base significantly expanded in a very short time). |
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However ther is a hope :). We are currently looking at the ways to delegate |
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part of the work on ebuild testing and updates to users (the trick is to do |
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it preserving security and integrity of distribution). If you are interested |
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you can take a look at: |
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http://www.its.caltech.edu/~georges/gentoo/epsp/proposal.html |
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for one of the solutions proposed (comments and suggestions are appreciated!). |
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You can also look through gentoo-dev archives (last few days), threads: |
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"Improving stability - checkpoints" and some other related stuff for more |
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discussion (even if not directly addressing this but related). |
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However you should understand that resolving this situation will require quite |
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dramatic rewamp of portage and thus will take some time (with security and |
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stability addressed first!). |
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And, BTW the point made by Matthew Kennedy is an absolutely valid one! You |
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will save developers time by providing them with patches where you can in |
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addition to bug reports. |
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George |
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