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On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 15:44:17 +0100 "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" |
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<hkBst@g.o> wrote: |
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> Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > i consider having a spelled out EAPI=0 spec to be quite valuable |
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> > and worth spending time on and i have to say that i get the feeling |
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> > that i'm not alone on this point |
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> I don't think anybody is trying to derail it and even if some people |
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> are, they will fail because there are too many others that care a lot |
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> about having some standard. |
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How many of them care enough to spend hours having to justify things to |
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people who don't even know what PMS is or what it contains? |
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> People are just annoyed that they have to ask for access when it has |
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> been made to look like only very few/special requests will be |
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> granted. |
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And how many of those people just want access because they're curious? |
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PMS is not ready for those types of people yet. It is only ready for |
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people who are going to make substantial contributions (of the order of |
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several pages, at least...). Anyone else who is asking for it is just |
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doing so because they want to meddle. |
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> And because it seems like some portage/pkgcore people are |
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> denied access. I think it would go a long way to preempt this |
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> discussion if the people working on PMS would state that all those |
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> people that are more or less involved with writing/maintaining a |
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> package manager for gentoo would get access on request. I think it |
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> would probably also lead to a better spec which is finished faster. |
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I suggest you have a look at what pkgcore people 'contributed' to GLEP |
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42 if you really believe that... |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/ |