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On Sat, 12 May 2007 18:22:41 -0700 |
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Peter Gordon <codergeek42@g.o> wrote: |
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> Could we not simply rename it, as has been suggested many times thus |
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> far? Then we could mask ion3 and let people know why and what it was |
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> renamed to, et al. |
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Presumably this would require maintaining updated documentation, |
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patches to change the program binary name and configuration paths |
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etc... In which case it should be done as an external fork, not a |
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Gentoo thing. |
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Really, I don't see why there's a need to go out of the way for this. |
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Upstream clearly don't want their package in the tree, and the |
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devmanual [1] says that that wish should be respected. |
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[1]: http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/tree/index.html |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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