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On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:46:41 +0000 Steve Long |
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<slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> > Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> The EAPI=0 document was supposed to be a QA project. What it is |
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> >> now, I have no idea. |
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> > A QA subproject which has not yet released a public draft. |
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> And it doesn't concern you that after x months, Chris had no idea |
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> what it was? |
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Chris had no idea what it was because he was being mislead by all the |
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people going around making absurd claims in this thread. |
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> >> What the Council is interested |
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> >> in is a specification of expected behavior of an EAPI=0 compatible |
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> >> package manager. |
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> > Which is exactly what PMS is. |
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> Except it's one that needs Paludis ready before it can be considered |
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> complete. |
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It's supposed to be a specification, not a description of one program. |
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Had you read the thread, you'd know that already. |
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> /me thinks are they really that clever? /me remembers |
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> ciaranm's incredibly smart posts from ~2 years ago when he couldn't |
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> stand being treated like a noob. |
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Which is supposed to mean what? |
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> >> We asked for a specification. If the PMS |
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> >> team is unable or unwilling to provide us with what we asked under |
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> >> the terms we asked for it |
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> > We're working to provide it. So far, I haven't been asked for it |
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> > under any particular terms other than "at some point in the future, |
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> > and we realise that it will take a while to finish". |
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> Glad to hear it'll be here in a fortnight. See what a little free and |
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> open competition (or even the threat of it) can do? Welcome to the |
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> GPL. |
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This thread has slowed PMS down, not sped it up... And, uh, the GPL |
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doesn't come into it anywhere. |
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Kindly stop. You don't have a clue what you're talking about and your |
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attempts at trolling are highly transparent. |
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-- |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/ |
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