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On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 16:30:14 -0800
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Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o> wrote:
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> On 01/21/2016 02:41 PM, waltdnes@××××××××.org wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 06:45:20PM +0100, Micha?? Górny wrote |
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> [...] |
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> > I think you misunderstood Roy. He was speaking about |
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> > "unmaintained but perfectly functional software". You're talking |
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> > about "a package that clearly doesn't build or otherwise simply |
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> > doesn't work, could not have worked for past 3 years". Between |
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> > those 2 extremes will be many cases of |
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> > doesn't-work-for-me/works-for-me. Who'll be the final arbiter? |
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> > Maybe we should start a "gentoo-ebuilds" mailing list to help |
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> > regular users learn the ins and outs of making ebuilds. Once |
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> > regular users run a lot of their own ebuilds from their local |
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> > overlays, then it would be possible to do draconian pruning of the |
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> > "official portage tree", without so adversely affecting regular |
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> > users. This would fit in with the mantra of Gentoo being about |
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> > freedom of choice. |
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> > E.g. I use Pale Moon, a fork of Firefox. Currently, I have to |
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> > build as regular user, su, and copy the binary to /usr/local. You |
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> > can see "Walter's excellent adventure" <G> as I learn the build |
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> > process at... |
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> > https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=10002 |
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> > I'd like to have Portage manage the process. The ebuild from |
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> > Firefox should serve as a template, because they both use the same |
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> > weird Mozilla build setup. The main change should be where the |
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> > source is pulled from. |
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> The idea sounds nice, but there's already the devmanual to cover |
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> ebuild development, and now that the gentoo repo is in git, any |
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> ebuilds that get treecleaned can be fetched again through history, and |
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> users can then add those to their personal overlay(s) and keep the |
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> piece if they break. |
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> I like the idea of encouraging people to learn good ebuild writing, |
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> but who really has the time and skill to teach it? |
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me. Been doing it for months. You had not noticed? via
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#gentoo-proxy-maint, which I made from scratch, despite the notion
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initially being discounted by one mrueg. He now is a colleague in the
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channel.
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> - -- |
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> Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer |
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- --
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kind regards
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Ian Delaney
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