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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 +0000 Steve Long |
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<slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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| > I'm saying that until there is an independent implementation, the |
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| > specification is worthless and will contain huge numbers of errors. |
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| Seriously? Without an implementation, your spec of what should happen |
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| will have loads of errors? |
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Yes. It will describe what people think is allowed, rather than what |
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really is. Perfect example -- we'd never have caught the multiple |
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sourcing issue without an independent implementation. |
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| Clearly you are more concerned about getting Paludis ready. spb has |
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| other priorities, fair enough, but this is something that seems |
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| fairly important for gentoo as a whole. |
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Only if you consider replacing Portage to be important for Gentoo as a |
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whole. |
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Which I do, but one also has to have something with which to do the |
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replacing... |
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| In process terms, I can't understand why the team working on it isn't |
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| a pkgcore dev (eg marienz if you can't communicate with ferringb) |
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Because a) they haven't asked, b) they're more interested in replacing |
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the ebuild format and c) every other time they've gotten involved |
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they've been highly unhelpful. |
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| a portage dev such as zmedico |
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We have a Portage dev reviewing it. |
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| and say antarus from treecleaners. |
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What on earth do tree cleaners have to do with it? |
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| I'd add in someone like jakub |
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Are you insane? What on earth could Jakub possibly contribute? If you |
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want a rough indication of Jakub's level of ebuild understanding, take |
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a look at bug 160328. |
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| or spanky from bug wranglers |
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Why? What on earth do bug wranglers have to do with a package manager |
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specification? If Mike wants to contribute he's more than welcome to, |
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but it wouldn't be in a bug wrangling role... |
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| and Gianelloni for the infrastructure. |
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And what on earth do infrastructure have to do with a package manager |
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specification? |
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Somehow I don't think you have the slightest clue what the scope of the |
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document is... |
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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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