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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: luke-jr+gentoobugs@×××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 16:41:41
Message-Id: 20170307171850.GI25144@stuge.se
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots by "Anthony G. Basile"
1 Anthony G. Basile wrote:
2 > I proxy maintain bitcoins for luke-jr. He wants to propose a patch
3 > against the bitcoin eclass. The following is his proposed change.
4 > I'll commit it after review.
5
6 Please do not do that, Anthony.
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9 > Bitcoin Knots includes a number of enhancements users may find useful. I
10 > think it would be a good idea to make it the default for Bitcoin
11 > ebuilds (net-p2p/bitcoin-qt, net-p2p/bitcoind, and dev-util/bitcoin-tx).
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13 I can only interpret this patch one way: sshole takeover attempt
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15 I disagree very strongly. >:( Matt's suggested approach (separate
16 bitcoin-knots ebuild) seems like the right thing to do. I assume
17 there is no binary incompatiblity between the two packages?
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20 Luke-Jr: I hope you're not maintaining a patchset, but a separate
21 project. A patchset would be utterly silly, since it causes
22 completely unneccessary user confusion.
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25 //Peter

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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Update bitcoin eclass to default to knots "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>