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2012/11/1 Jamie Learmonth <jamie-lists@×××××××××××××.com>: |
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> Firstly, why are you guys always so mad, and secondly why don't we just |
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> start packaging more of these packages as binaries then or bundling the |
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> needed version like the rest of the world does anyways? |
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So are you suggesting to package all the binaries that depend upon too |
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old boost, or upon too new boost, or whatever, as binaries? |
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I always thought those few -bin packages are -bin just because they |
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take quite a lot time to be compiled. |
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> So how about we transform this distro into one where decisions are made on |
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> real world benefits, not purist ideals, and technical giants help each other |
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> to make breakthroughs unimaginable to others because they are smarter, work |
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> together, and the most kick-ass geeks on this interweb. I want to keep using |
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> Gentoo not just because of the pretty colours on the eix output or because |
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> when I run emerge --world in a coffee shop all the chicks think I'm that guy |
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> from the Hackers movie, or even because my favourite color is purple. I want |
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> to keep using Gentoo because the team effing rocks! |
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> Who's with me? |
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I hope you'd forgive I'd oppose that suggestion, given I'm not a |
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Gentoo dev but just a C++ developer who uses Gentoo as his primary |
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(and, in fact, only) distro and loves it a lot. |
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Gentoo has a wonderful community which I truly love, but first thing |
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about a distro is how it helps you to solve your problems and achieve |
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your goals. I'd surely miss the slotted Boost, since it was one of the |
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things I needed for my C++ thingies and which I loved, but Diego's |
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arguments are sane and reasonable, and I also had quite some PITA with |
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old/new/whatever Boost versions, so OK, I can live without slotted |
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Boost. But please, leave Gentoo as that powerful distro that really |
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helps to work and code. I want it source-based. I want to be able to |
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seamlessly have Qt 4.8.9999, or cabal integrated with Portage (kudos |
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to gentoo-haskell guys, they're doing great work), and things like |
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that. |
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That makes even more sense given the new C++11 standard and it's |
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gradual implementation in gcc. One could just as well say "let's just |
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keep the newest gcc 4.7 in portage, since there is software that fails |
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to build with gcc 4.6 and earlier", for example. |
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Georg Rudoy |
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