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can't affect me as I am not into games ; but I have tried some on kde , |
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they seems to work fine. |
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2017-11-19 20:17 GMT+00:00 R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com>: |
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> Hello friends! |
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> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> |
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> wrote: |
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> > 171119 James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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> >> On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 08:50:20 -0500 |
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> >> Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> >>> 171118 David Seifert wrote: |
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> >>>> As the Games team does not have enough manpower to keep tabs on all |
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> >>>> games packages, we have dropped all games-* ebuilds to unstable |
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> >>>> keywords (modulo those required by stable non-games packages). |
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> >>> Isn't this overkill in the absence of widespread bug reports for games |
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> ? |
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> >>> 'Stable' doesn't mean well-maintained, |
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> >>> but in the tree for some time & no serious bug reports. |
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> >> There are plenty of bug reports for games. |
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> > |
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> > What percentage of games pkgs have bugs ? |
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> I too would like some clarification on the standards being used. |
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> > Marking all games 'unstable' still seems to be overkill. |
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> To add to this, it is unlikely the situation will improve until it is |
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> made easier for people to contribute. If one is not aware there is a |
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> tendency for Gentoo-related issues to receive blog posts addressing |
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> them, or to be passed down via word of mouth on IRC, or to be hidden |
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> in a hard-to-find (and/or index) page of the Wiki. |
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> The most likely explanation for this state of affairs is that getting |
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> contributions accepted into the main tree is too hard. |
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> It is one thing to say that contributions to the main Portage tree |
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> require some standards to be upheld, but these standards do not seem |
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> to be applied consistently. For example, crossdev, genkernel, and the |
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> bootstrap-prefix and bootstrap-rap scripts are more or less |
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> unmaintainable disasters. Crossdev in particular oscillates between |
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> periods of relative stability and extreme brokenness, and the |
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> bootstrap scripts are poorly explained with no extant documentation |
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> and a workflow that does not clearly fit into Gentoo (or more properly |
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> Portage) development at large. Other ebuilds may simply install low |
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> quality software, or install software that is hard to manage with |
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> Portage. |
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> Respectfully, |
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> R0b0t1 |
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