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Kent, |
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Friday, August 8, 2014, 7:51:22 PM, you wrote: |
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There's no way to communicate to a user what you will and will not do with the software, so its impossible to know what flaws you will and won't encounter, so the dependencies thus declare a minimum for expected working behaviour for *all* a software's functionality, not just your user-specific subset. |
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Maintainers have no feedback from their ebuilds, they all do their best but there are no tools |
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to formalize their work. No compass. They have no access to user |
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space where the packages are installed, unaware how users are using their ebuilds. It's the design |
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failure that hunts Gentoo from the start - no global intellectual bug tracking system. Doing not mistakes |
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- not possible, the automated tracking sub-systems should be there but... we are where we are. |
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If the first portage had the stats in any shape Gentoo would be better now. A year ago I wanted to program it |
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but I was in a very huge project that I'm still coding :-((( it's life or death project for me and I can't |
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move out of it or I will sleep on a street. |
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I appreciate all the work everyone is done on Gentoo in free time and I appreciate even more that you really found |
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that time in this world and this life not saying but really doing. It's my best system and I only hope that someday |
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I would be able to contribute to it as many of you did. |
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If you wish to override that decision, you may, but your self-supporting from that point on. |
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TL;DR = just because it works /for you/, doesn't mean it /isn't broken/ and doesn't mean the minimum declaration is "unnecessary" for all users. |
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Agree. |
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Best regards, |
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Igor mailto:lanthruster@×××××.com |
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