Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:47:38
Message-Id: 20080109024724.12bd71fc@snowcone
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January by Alec Warner
1 On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:44:22 -0800
2 "Alec Warner" <antarus@g.o> wrote:
3 > > Uh... So where do the original problems come from? Are you saying
4 > > that packages mysteriously start breaking on their own because
5 > > no-one's maintaining them?
6 >
7 > Of course they do
8
9 Ah, right. Because of the magical elf that lives in the CVS server
10 that mysteriously goes around breaking dependencies when no-one's
11 looking.
12
13 Yes, a magical elf. Much more plausible than the theory that it's
14 actually developers screwing up by dropping keywords or best keyworded
15 version on a package's deps.
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh

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