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On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:06:26AM -0400, Chad M. Huneycutt wrote: |
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> In my defense, though, as Hallski suggested, the two problems brought to |
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> my attention were not obvious typos, as woodchip seems to think. The |
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> fact that there is a = means that there might be a reason to use it. |
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> And the ko.mo issue might point to a larger problem. As I told |
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> woodchip, his fixes might only treat the symptom, whereas I would prefer |
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> someone on the proper team look at it and fix the problem. If he had |
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> said, "in the foo ebuild, they typed bar in one place and baz in |
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> another, when it is obviously supposed to be bar", then I would probably |
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> have fixed it, or told to him to ask someone else if I was busy. Then a |
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> flame would have been appropriate. |
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> I apologize for making it seem like *any* tiny fix should be sent to the |
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> teams for a vote, but I was only talking about my opinion on those two bugs. |
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OK; that makes perfect sense. At the same time, a temporary fix, even if not |
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addressing the root problem, is often better than no fix at all. Especially |
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if ebuilds are dying because of the problem. |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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