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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 07:46:45
Message-Id: 446AD327.8080404@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Paludis and Profiles by Matthijs van der Vleuten
1 Matthijs van der Vleuten wrote:
2 > On 5/17/06, Christian Hartmann <ian@g.o> wrote:
3 >> > With respect to the "hey support omg!" comments i say stick a big fat
4 >> > README about being an experimental profile or something like that and
5 >> > that's it. Usually bug reports require "emerge --info" so it'll be easy
6 >> > to flag invalid ones anyway.
7 >>
8 >> Well. Marking a bug invalid doesn't make the real problem go away...
9 >> but the
10 >> users.
11 >
12 > I'd say that's exactly the intention of INVALID. If I were to file,
13 > say, a bug in GCC at Gentoo's Bugzilla instead of GCC's, it would be
14 > marked INVALID. (Unless, of course, the bug is caused by Gentoo's
15 > patches.)
16
17 Actually it should be marked UPSTREAM. But we're getting a bit offtopic
18 here.
19
20 Thanks,
21 Donnie

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