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Chris Bainbridge wrote: |
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> On 09/06/06, Luis Francisco Araujo <araujo@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Yes, i agree, writting and maintaining ebuilds is a hard and |
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>> *time-consuming* task. |
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>> So if an user can't even take the time to fix a digest, why we should |
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>> support him |
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>> officially?. |
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> |
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> The point is that there are lots of users who are interested in niche |
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> packages that no developers use or are interested in. These users have |
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> the skills to write an ebuild, and other users of the package have the |
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> skills to fix and maintain that ebuild over time. These guys don't |
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> mind downloading ebuilds from bugzilla and fixing digests. But there |
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> are a larger class of users of niche packages that don't have the |
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> ebuild skills, and don't want the hassle of bugzilla and digest |
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> fixing. This larger group of users are the ones that would benefit |
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> from an overlay. |
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Fine. I highly agree on that, now my question is, |
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why this needs to be officially supported? |
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