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Robert Cernansky wrote: |
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> Oh, if I can speak for me as a user I'll not like it. One of the major |
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> advantage of Gentoo is easy maintenace (not mindless, but easy if you |
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> know what you are doing) thanks to portage system. Another is |
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> availability of large number of software in distribution. These two |
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> together gives easily maintanable operating system - because of |
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> portage and because I do not need to maintain lot of packages by |
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> myself. |
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I don't know what it is your point here. But i guess, yes, as an user |
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you shouldn't be worried about it. This is just another way for |
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cooperating with the project for those interested in doing so. |
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> If I have some application that is not included in portage why |
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> I decide to make an ebuild? Because I hope that then it will be |
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> accepted and included to portage, so maintained by developers (big |
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> thanks for this). If I have to take care of package + ebuild + |
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> dependencies, I'll rather choose not to make an ebulid but compile |
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> package right from .tar.gz archive. |
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Dependencies are not 'magically' solved. Somebody needs to initially |
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takes care of them. |
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> Sorry for being such a bad user. But I'm pretty busy mostly so I'm |
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> glad If I find time to make an initial ebuild and submit. In that |
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> case, I see no problem to submit right to bugzilla and dicuss/fix/test |
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> the ebuild there. |
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That is a different way to cooperate with us. |
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> I would agree with your points of user responsibilty to solve bugs, |
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> dependencies and so on, but only until package is accepted and |
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> included to portage. |
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We need to know before committing this stuff to the tree that the user |
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will compromise at some degree. And this kind of work is a good sign of |
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it. We already have too many unmaintained stuff. |
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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org" |
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