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antarus posted recently to the user reps forum asking for feedback on how to |
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solve user experience glitches like the recent xmms removal. (I do *not* |
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want to discuss that thanks ;) The thread is at: |
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http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-516142.html |
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richfish came up with the simplest solution to the problem of old ebuilds: |
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> The best possible case I can think of for most of these ebuilds is to push |
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> them upstream assuming upstream is alive and willing to maintain them |
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> (possibly with some user-supplied patches now and then). Users would then |
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> be responsible for installing the ebuilds to their local overlays, and |
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> filing bugs with upstream if something doesn't work. In fact, my strong |
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> preference in this is to just tell users to use their local overlay |
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> regardless of whether upstream accepts ownership of the ebuilds. I would |
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> even suggest we encourage this by providing a dedicated forum and IRC |
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> channel for users to help each other with their 'private' ebuilds. |
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This requires a new IRC channel and forum (one suggestion was `sunset' 8) so |
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I thought I'd post in here to see what everyone thought. |
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