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On Friday 14 July 2006 20:20, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> See, it is this kind of self-serving attitude that really needs to stop |
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> around here. So the portage devs didn't include something that you |
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> wanted in the latest release... Did you give them a patch for it? |
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Do I ask people to give me patches to xine-lib when they report bugs? |
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> Making decisions like this that confuse our users and make the |
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> distribution harder to use and more inconsistent |
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I find disputable that my solution is "harder to use and more inconsistent". I |
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actually find it more consistent across all the arches and platforms we have, |
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as Ciaran already said. |
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> because you have a |
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> personal beef with another team simply because they didn't drop |
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No I didn't do that decision because they didn't put per-package use.mask . I |
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did that decision because the only other way to have the same behaviour is |
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resorting to the arch hacking thing that is not acceptable to my eyes. Both |
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solutions aren't beautiful, I still find my solution better than the arch |
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hacking. |
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What I'm saying with that thing about portage is that you cannot get to me |
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screaming that I used an improper solution because the only proper solution |
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was _postponed_ by portage team. Which means that if you really don't like |
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this situation you have to tell them, not me. |
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> No thanks. I would much rather have a consistent and working |
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> distribution than cater to some childish self-important bullshit that |
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> only harms our users. |
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Exactly my point, so why instead of starting criticising my choice in favour |
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of your choice you don't go writing the famous patch? By the way, a patch |
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there was, by antarus, but needed to be cleaned up. My python skills are |
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weak, and you really don't want to see me hacking to portage, but KingTaco |
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iirc offered to take a look. But freeze was entered before anybody could do |
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anything. |
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> I don't give a crap about transcode. I was talking about USE=mp3. |
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> Changing the subject doesn't help anyone. |
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I'm not changing the subject, I'm just showing you that xine-lib's USE=mad is |
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just _one_ of many other similar problems that don't have a proper solution. |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ |
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Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE |
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