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On 01/06/04 Robert Cole wrote: |
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And I say so what? Again as a gentoo user I accept that risk when I |
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> use the gentoo distro. If I want "stable" I could run debian stable |
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> and be a few years back on everything all the time. |
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You do, but you can't necessarily expect that from all other users too. |
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Gentoo has become a lot more mainstream in the past year (I leave it for |
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everyone to decide for themselves if that's good or bad). We can't (and |
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don't wanto to) control the community and what it expects from us, |
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Gentoo has to adjust to it's community, not the other way round. |
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Ask the community if it's safe to use ~arch packages, I'll bet many |
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people will answer that it is. As a new user you trust them, it breaks |
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your system badly, you loose some important data. This leaves a bad |
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image for Gentoo and that can spread very fast. |
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One idea I've seen in this thread I've thought about some time ago, but |
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never got it implemented due to lack of time (and maybe skills ;): |
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A website for users to do some auto-quality checking for their ebuilds, |
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a webinterface for repoman or similar (so upload your ebuild and get |
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some feedback about quality without waiting for a dev). Not to replace |
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but enhance bugzilla. If anyone feels like implementing this, I think it |
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would be a nice addition. |
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Marius |
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-- |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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