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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:57:29AM +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: |
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> So, to sum up, if we can build a better communication way it could be |
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> useful for both sides. |
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- "Most of the Gentoo ebuilds don't have the two lists split" |
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I'd certainly welcome hearing about any supposed DEPEND/RDEPEND issues |
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in my packages (both those I directly maintain as well as a good swath |
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of those I maintain via herds), as well cases where you see a some deps |
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not declared at all (and also in the indirect deps). |
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- "There are TOO MANY USE flags while instead packages SHOULD BE split" |
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No. In general, Gentoo is one package per upstream idea of a package. |
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It's been that way for a long time, and I don't foresee any specific |
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need to change it soon. Even if you did, there are still at least the |
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same number of total combinations to test, if not more. If you really |
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want to make progress here, get various upstreams to split stuff better. |
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- "Localizations should be split too" |
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Again, get upstream to put them separately, for all cases where they are |
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just files that are automatically detected, and nothing regarding |
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available locales is compiled or configured into the binaries or |
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libraries. |
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- "Even if I found a lot of these bugs daily..." |
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If you want to report bugs quickly, see pybugz, or use the Bugzilla |
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templating facility (I prefer it myself). Response time is large for any |
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bugs generally, because we do a lot of stuff. It's in your best |
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interests to send the fixes back to Gentoo, because that means you don't |
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need to continually port fixes in your overlay when newer versions are |
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released. |
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For a lot of these issues, I'd love either a patch that you've uploaded, |
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or a direct link to a changeset on some VCS. Note: NOT the new file, but |
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a link directly to the changeset. |
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- "What I am asking Gentoo Foundation is, let me fix them" |
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Apply to be a developer, then you can fix them. I don't personally have |
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any opinion (positive or negative) about Sabayon, but a former coworker |
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of mine was a big fan. |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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