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On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:26:31 -0400 Luis Francisco Araujo <araujo@g.o> wrote: |
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> Robert Cernansky wrote: |
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> > Oh, if I can speak for me as a user I'll not like it. One of the |
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> > major advantage of Gentoo is easy maintenace (not mindless, but |
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> > easy if you know what you are doing) thanks to portage |
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> > system. Another is availability of large number of software in |
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> > distribution. These two together gives easily maintanable |
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> > operating system - because of portage and because I do not need to |
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> > maintain lot of packages by myself. |
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> I don't know what it is your point here. But i guess, yes, as an |
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> user you shouldn't be worried about it. This is just another way for |
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> cooperating with the project for those interested in doing so. |
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I just understand it so, that if a user submits a new ebuild he has to |
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in fact maintain it. So overall maintenance time required by his |
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operating system will be pretty high. Because besides the |
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'emerge --sync' and 'emerge -u world', he needs take care of "his" |
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ebuilds. |
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In that paragraph I'm saying that Gentoo have lot of packages so there |
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is a little chance that users have to maintain some packages by |
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themselves (outside the portage tree). But this will break if users |
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have to maintain ebuilds which they submit. |
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> > thanks for this). If I have to take care of package + ebuild + |
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> > dependencies, I'll rather choose not to make an ebulid but compile |
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> > package right from .tar.gz archive. |
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> Dependencies are not 'magically' solved. Somebody needs to initially |
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> takes care of them. |
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Yes, _initially_. This is what I agree with. That the points that you |
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propose will be applied only for initial import of ebuild. Until the |
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ebuild gets to portage tree. Then the developers take care of it. Of |
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course the note/recommendation can exist that user who submitted an |
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ebuild will help to maintain it also in future. But if not, (if the |
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user is mostly only a _user_ for whatever reason) the package will be |
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still maintained by developers. |
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Robert |
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Robert Cernansky |
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E-mail: hslists2@××××××.sk |
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Jabber: HS@××××××.sk |
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