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On Thursday 13 March 2008 14:34:50 Natanael Copa wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 00:35 +0100, Fabio Erculiani wrote: |
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> > I offer my help to fix DEPEND/RDEPEND split issues which is causing me |
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> > a lot of headaches (along with localizations). |
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> > For reference, please have a look here: |
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> > http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=105 |
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> I'm another distro builder that uses the Gentoo framework. I can only |
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> agree. I had to roll my own binary package format and after a short |
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> while I had to do the dependencies myself and just ignore RDEPEND since |
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> it was close to useless. |
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> While Gentoo is fantasitc to build stuff, the binary packagement has |
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> some serious issues. It would be really nice if Gentoo could be better |
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> on supporting other binary only package managers. |
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We can all agree that Gentoo's binary package support leaves a lot of room for |
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improvement. But to fix that you need to come up with real solutions and be |
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prepared to discuss them here and through our bugzilla. And accept the fact |
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that it will take time... On top of that you need to be able to accept that |
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we might not agree with your proposed solution for some of the issues... |
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Bo Andresen |
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Gentoo KDE Dev |
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