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On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 15:49:34 -0800 Allen Parker <infowolfe@×××××.com> |
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| why is it that developers can't spend an extra moment or 2 tar/bz2'ing |
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| their patchsets and uploading them to the mirrors instead of including |
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| them where they are and making the portage tree bulge from the seams? |
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a) because the mirror system really really sucks for that kind of thing, |
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so we tend to end up with dozens of duplicate bugs whining about patches |
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being missing because of the huge upload delay |
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b) because the mirror system really really sucks if you want to make a |
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few small changes to a patch that aren't worthy of a revbump |
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c) most of the stuff that you're complaining about has been there for |
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ages, and when it was added this wasn't an issue. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, Sparc, Mips) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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