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From: Lares Moreau <lares.moreau@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:41:24
Message-Id: 1138127688.27325.20.camel@jarita
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X by Mark Loeser
1 On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:25 -0500, Mark Loeser wrote:
2 > > The problem with that is that it removes all motivation to ever port the
3 > > packages. They'll just stay that way forever, where forever means "until
4 > > I threaten to remove that from the virtual," in which case we'll be in
5 > > the same scenario we are now. Why? Because people have better things to
6 > > do than fix stuff that isn't broken.
7 >
8 > It'd be nice if you reconsidered this as it will minimize any breakage that
9 > may occur. Knowing that >800 packages are broken, and going to unmask it
10 > knowing that just doesn't seem acceptable in my eyes. ~arch isn't meant to
11 > be "things are known to be broken." It's meant to mean, we think all of this
12 > is ready to be stable, which it certainly won't be in this case.
13
14 I did some rough calculations and we are porting about 29 pkgs/day.
15 At this rate it will take roughly 30 days to have all packages ported to
16 ModX.
17
18 spyderous wants it tomorrow,
19 HalycOn wants it when all is ported.
20
21 A (perhaps overly) simple solution is to split the difference.
22
23 In 15 days ModX goes ~arch. 8 February
24
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o>