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squalellmail really should have a feature where replying to a mailing list |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-web-user] Hardened PHP now in Gentoo |
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From: "Joseph Booker" <joe@××××××××××.net> |
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Date: Thu, May 20, 2004 11:25 am |
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To: "foser" <foser@g.o> |
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foser said: |
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> Relatively speaking. Sure there's always a few users using them, but is |
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it worth what it adds in complexity ? |
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those who care to get the optional features, those interested in what the |
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package can do. ebuild hacking should be a last resort to fix something |
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that wouldn't compile or any such situtaution where there is an error, |
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nothing normal users should have to do provided the ebuild is |
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well-written. if you just use what you think are sensable defaults rather |
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then local use flags, then you will get bug reports of the users |
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submitting patchs to enable/disable these features to make the package |
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'better'. how much choice is that? the idea of using packages like |
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php-with-mysql will come up, things will get less maintainable, bugs for |
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people being forced to edit ebuilds and doing it wrong, or worse, the devs |
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could refuse to help them as they are using modified unoffical ebuilds |
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> To start : it is not equivalent, binary packaging is a mess of it's own |
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and ebuilding is starting to go that same way. And it used to be |
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perfectly fine to say such things ('edit it to your needs') and people |
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accepted that, because it was (is?) a breeze to edit simple builds |
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script for example. But somewhere along the way we moved to holding |
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hands for even the most obscure of setups. |
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perhaps the gentoo comunity is become less and less made up of developers |
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who know how ebuilds work and bash scripting, and is now more and more of |
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those who can't? |
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