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--On Donnerstag, Juni 06, 2002 22:33:22 -0700 Jeremiah Mahler |
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<jmahler@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> The goal is to have packages that are of high quality. |
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That was not my intention. I just want to make the distribution a little |
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safer against worm or virus infection. |
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Beside that, I'm of the opinion that the developer of the software knows at |
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best the quality of it. And I think an ebuild is (or should) normally not |
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more than calling configure, make and make install from the original |
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package. It was allways a miracle for me, why a debian maintainer could |
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know anything more about the stability of a package than the original |
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developer. And because portage can handle more than one version of a |
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package, it should be up to the user to decide which versions he wants. |
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I'm switched to gentoo because it offers me actual versions (compiled for |
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my machine) with the comfort of just calling 'emerge package'. |
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Regards, |
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Alexander |
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PS: I would find it nice if someone would describe the USE-variable 'tests' |
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in the appropriate places (e.g. portage manual). Maybe this would inspire |
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some ebuild-designers to call 'make tests' (if that is offered) before |
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installing. This could make the quality a bit higher. ;) |