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maillog: 24/01/2006-12:25:01(-0500): Mark Loeser types |
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> Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> said: |
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> > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:06:12 -0800 Donnie Berkholz |
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> > > <spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > | Here's my proposal for dealing with modular X entering ~arch. |
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> > > What's wrong with the original idea of just making any unported ebuild |
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> > > pull in all of modular X (minus drivers)? Yes, it means that some |
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> > > people will pick up unnecessary deps until all packages are ported, but |
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> > > it avoids anyone having to see flashy red errors. |
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> > The problem with that is that it removes all motivation to ever port the |
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> > packages. They'll just stay that way forever, where forever means "until |
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> > I threaten to remove that from the virtual," in which case we'll be in |
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> > the same scenario we are now. Why? Because people have better things to |
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> > do than fix stuff that isn't broken. |
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> It'd be nice if you reconsidered this as it will minimize any breakage that |
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> may occur. Knowing that >800 packages are broken, and going to unmask it |
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> knowing that just doesn't seem acceptable in my eyes. ~arch isn't meant to |
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> be "things are known to be broken." It's meant to mean, we think all of this |
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> is ready to be stable, which it certainly won't be in this case. |
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Don't let the numbers trick you, guys. Everything in app-xemacs/ is in |
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that list only because xemacs is broken. Fix that one package and you |
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get 115 packages done. I wonder how many others are like that. |
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