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You miss the fact that MANY new ports have not been added to the tree, but |
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have been marked as LATER instead. Marked out right and not even reviewed. |
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OH -- for you chess players out there, I have created a port for SCID that |
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is waiting in the queue -- and I created it for the stable 3.3 version, not |
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the beta (coming soon). http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9391 |
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Tom Veldhouse |
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----- Original Message ----- |
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From: "Tom Syroid" <tom@×××××××××××.com> |
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To: "Matt Beland" <matt@××××××××××××××.org>; <gentoo-dev@g.o> |
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Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 2:43 PM |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: When is Gentoo 1.4 going to be released? |
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> Hi Matt ;-) long time, no chat. |
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> --On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:15:49 -0700 Matt Beland |
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> <matt@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> > We want the Gentoo team to let us know when they're going to |
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> > let us take full advantage of the portage system again. Frankly, I (and |
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> > I suspect most others) could care less about the 1.4 release in and of |
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> > itself. Sure, a new version of the compiler and so on would be nice, but |
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> > I can get that on my own if necessary. The problem is that the portage |
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> > tree is frozen waiting for 1.4, and has been for some time. |
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> Without trying to be contentious here (in other words, simple honest |
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> question)... |
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> I know you well enough that I can safely say you're not about to go off |
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> using a new version of something on any kind of critcal box without |
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testing |
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> it first. So on the assumption that you have already discerned |
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> program/tool/system utility is "ready for prime time", what's wrong with |
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> simply edited the "frozen" entry in package.mask and installing it? |
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> While I concur that the Gentoo development team as a whole could do a |
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> better job of communicating TODO's and loose timelines to the community, I |
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> don't see how a frozen Portage tree is preventing you from utilizing the |
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> distribution in any way you heart desires. |
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> Best, |
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> /tom |
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