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>Gentoo patches 3rd party apps for new GCC versions? |
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>I would have expected the original package author to |
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>be doing that, not people from a particular distro. |
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All the distros do it. Nobody wants to wait for the |
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maintaner to find the time, they usually have other |
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work to do to put food on the table. That's the reason |
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the updates happen so fast. Among all the distros, |
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there's someone who has the time (and quite often is |
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paid to do so, e.g. Mandrake, Red Hat) to figure out |
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the fixes right away. As soon as they have it figured |
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out, they email it to the maintaner who then usually |
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checks it out and merges it into the code. |
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