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On Tue, 16 May 2006 19:10:18 +0200 Christian Hartmann <ian@g.o> |
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| Oh lovely. - If noone has any strong reasonable objections, I'd like |
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| to add a $ians-playground profile to the tree. Furthermore I will |
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| start to keywording ebuilds with the new ~fridge keyword I just |
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| invented. |
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Why yes, because we're asking for people to go around changing all |
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their ebuilds. Oh, wait! We're not! That argument is right up there |
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with saying that the Pope should be removed from office because he |
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personally murdered five million French soldiers in World War II. |
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Please try to come up with something sliiightly more plausible than that |
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when you're trying to attack something based upon your personal |
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prejudices. Or is that really the best criticism you can find? |
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| > The next question is where to put it. The options as I see them are |
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| > under default-linux/x86/ or in a top-level paludis/ a la hardened, |
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| > selinux, embedded, and the like. |
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| How is paludis related to gentoo? Hardened and the other things you |
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| mentioned are gentoo projects. - Paludis is not. |
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Phony argument. Paludis is a package that's in the tree, and profile |
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changes are regularly made for packages that are in the tree. |
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| It's not about the size or the number of files. We have got enough - |
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| let's call it $stuff - in the tree. I'd really like to see valid and |
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| reasonable things added to the tree. - Adding things just because |
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| someone thinks it would be funny to add it to the tree can't be the |
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| way gentoo wants to go. |
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If you care about the size of the tree, why not start by nuking a few |
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dozen broken and unmaintained x11-* packages? They're not hard to find, |
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and unlike Paludis they aren't useful to anyone. |
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| Looking at the comment left for end-users on the paludis homepage [1] |
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| I'm still wondering why paludis is not package.mask'ed as it's known |
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| to break users systems. |
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Unfortunately, that warning has to be there to protect Paludis from |
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rampaging hordes of forums users and the like who otherwise would do |
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something very very dumb. Paludis is less likely to break your system |
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than reiserfs. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk |
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