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Steven J. Long posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2014 06:48:54 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> I for one prefer a distro to do a bit of work and make my life easier, |
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> since it makes life easier for everyone who uses the distro. Why the |
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> hell should I care if some bindist can't etc-update? WTF does that have |
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> to do with Gentoo? |
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Because if they can't etc-update, they'll come up with some other |
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solution that might not work so well for gentoo, and as upstream for some |
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number of packages they'll propagate that solution, causing more trouble |
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for gentoo trying to fix the impedance mismatch between their way and |
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ours. |
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Which is basically where we're at. Upstream came up with this /etc/ |
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config modifying a package-specific default config somewhere else random |
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on the system idea because they didn't have a good etc-update, and now we |
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have to figure out the most sane way to try to integrate that with |
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gentoo's etc-update based system. If we'd have been able to propagate |
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etc-update or similar before they came up with their solution, we'd not |
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have this problem, but of course that's a historical if that we can't go |
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back and revisit... except in possibly trying to get something like etc- |
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update propagated now to reduce similar problems in the future. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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