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On Tuesday 22 June 2004 23:33, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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> At this point I've made a couple suggestions, and developers have |
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> voiced either support or objections, and raised some good arguments |
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> either way. I'm hoping this email will summarize the three suggested |
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> approaches, their pros and cons, and we can eventually converge on a |
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> single solution. |
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I think that before this all, we first and all need to get absolutely clear |
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what we want to do with these keywords. As a package maintainer I know that |
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it can sometimes be displeasing when other archs mark your package as stable. |
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I do however not think that we need to spend that much effort on the problem. |
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If we want to spend the effort we however should first make clear the purpose, |
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not just make clear what the arch maintainer's keyword is without making it |
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clear what is the purpose of this knowledge. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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