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On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 06:45:20PM +0100, Micha?? Górny wrote |
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> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 17:25:02 +0000 |
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> Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote: |
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> > There is no point in removing unmaintained but perfectly functional |
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> > software from the tree. It needs to be both unmaintained and broken. |
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> > Broken being evidenced by at least one open bug. |
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> That's nonsense. In fact, that's exactly the opposite of what should |
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> be removed. |
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> If I see a package that clearly doesn't build or otherwise simply |
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> doesn't work, could not have worked for past 3 years, are you forcing |
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> me to waste a time reporting a bug to no maintainer who could fix it? |
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I think you misunderstood Roy. He was speaking about "unmaintained |
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but perfectly functional software". You're talking about "a package |
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that clearly doesn't build or otherwise simply doesn't work, could not |
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have worked for past 3 years". Between those 2 extremes will be many |
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cases of doesn't-work-for-me/works-for-me. Who'll be the final arbiter? |
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Maybe we should start a "gentoo-ebuilds" mailing list to help regular |
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users learn the ins and outs of making ebuilds. Once regular users run |
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a lot of their own ebuilds from their local overlays, then it would be |
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possible to do draconian pruning of the "official portage tree", without |
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so adversely affecting regular users. This would fit in with the mantra |
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of Gentoo being about freedom of choice. |
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E.g. I use Pale Moon, a fork of Firefox. Currently, I have to build |
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as regular user, su, and copy the binary to /usr/local. You can see |
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"Walter's excellent adventure" <G> as I learn the build process at... |
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https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=10002 |
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I'd like to have Portage manage the process. The ebuild from Firefox |
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should serve as a template, because they both use the same weird Mozilla |
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build setup. The main change should be where the source is pulled from. |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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