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On 02/04/2017 01:05 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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>> Maintainers of individual packages have the most knowledge about how to |
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>> best deliver that specific package, but maintainers of profiles have |
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>> the best understanding of what people want to see. |
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> Yes has to be a balance. I do not believe package maintainers will always |
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> share the vision of the profiles. |
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> Said another way, if defaults were sane enough, would profiles be necessary? |
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> Profiles are kind of an extra added benefit to the end user, and those making |
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> the profiles. Mostly a benefit for the end user. There isn't much benefit to the |
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> package maintainer. I could not really see anything that would give them |
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> reason to spend their time on something that would not benefit them. |
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I can't speak for other maintainers but generally if there's an issue in |
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an ebuild I maintain, I try to figure out a) the specific problem, and |
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b) the simplest and most-effective solution. If an ebuild I maintain is |
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broken on arm64, for example, it's still my responsibility to figure out |
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how to get it working, assuming the software was written in a way to |
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allow for that build anyway. Since I don't run anything other than amd64 |
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right now, I have to depend on others to find issues for other arches. |
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Generally I'll accept any change as long as it meets our ebuild |
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standards and doesn't exchange one problem for another. |
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One could argue "of course it benefits you", but I don't do it because |
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it benefits me. I do it because a) it fixes a problem I probably didn't |
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know about and b) it's how we make Gentoo better. |
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I don't have an opinion on profiles. I like the idea of them and respect |
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the work that goes into them. If maintainers need to make small changes |
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here or there so their packages work on specific profiles, I don't see |
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the problem. We do commit+push over typos; a profile is more important |
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than that, so naturally we should have little issue ironing out support |
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when the errant wrinkle comes up. |
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