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lör 2001-12-22 klockan 19.12 skrev Dan Armak: |
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> On Saturday 22 December 2001 20:29, you wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I run cvs with no problems at all. If the ebuild is called beta? Users |
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> > should know that it can brake things. I would say go for it :)... |
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> I'd have said the same, but in this case it's Hallski's decision, as he is |
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> head of the Desktop team. |
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If everyone thinks we should put these kind of stuff in portage I'll |
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bend for the majority. |
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My reasoning was that _if_ we have these kind of things in Portage it |
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might break stuff other than that particular package. And users will |
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install it no matter how many alpha/beta etc. tags you put on the |
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package name, be sure. |
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That means that users might come and ask, my foobar doesn't work, and we |
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developers can spend several hours trying to figure out what's wrong |
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until it's clear that he installed foo-beta which happends to break this |
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package. |
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That is why I'm against putting untested early-beta software in the |
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packagesystem. Because no matter how much unsupported they are, we will |
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always end up support it. |
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But as I said, if everyone else feels this is ok, just put it in. |
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Regards, |
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Mikael Hallendal |
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Mikael Hallendal |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader |
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CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden |
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