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> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:45:38 +0200 |
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> arfrever <arfrever@××.pl> wrote: |
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>> "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <msterret@××××.com> napisaÅ‚: |
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>> > I commented this out of package.mask. x11-libs/fox-1.2.6-r2 still |
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>> > uses it. Need to fix that up before masking it. |
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>> These not numerous packages still using virtual/x11 can be fixed |
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>> after masking it. Almost nobody uses them. Masking virtual/x11 could |
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>> urge some developers to fix these packages. |
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> Breaking the tree, and thus end user systems, is not an acceptable way |
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> of getting people to fix things. It doesn't make any difference to |
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> developers who haven't fixed their packages, only to users. |
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It's acceptable to me. I'd rather see us make progress than postpone |
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changes for months while devs bicker about changes to be made. That would |
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not be the case if say, people had the balls to just fix things in the |
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tree. However we have this fun system where you have to incessantly |
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contact the maintainer in order to get anything done lest they cry and |
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moan and run to the council because 'you touched their precious package'. |
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-Alec |
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PS: For those non-native speakers, portions of my reply were tongue-in-cheek. |
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