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On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:03:15PM +0200 or thereabouts, Tom Payne wrote: |
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> We will also need to persuade every dev to support this. Often bug fixes are |
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> available from upstream only in a new version of a package, and are mixed in |
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> with a many other improvements. Extracting the bug fix _only_ and |
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> backporting this fix to an old version is at best time consuming, often |
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> difficult, and occasionally impossible. |
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This was never the intent of the original GLEP. I don't think backporting |
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fixes is feasible for many reasons. |
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> Backporting fixes to out-of-date software that I no longer use for the |
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> benefit of people I don't even know exist is distinctly unglamourous and |
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> doesn't scratch any of my Open Source itches. You really need to persuade |
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> developers that "Enterprise (slow-moving) Gentoo" is a good idea before |
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> discussing implementation details. |
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The primary reason for writing and reviving this GLEP is because quite a |
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few developers, along with a great deal of users, have asked for an |
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enterprise version of gentoo. |
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--kurt |
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