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On 2014.06.30 16:40, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: |
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> On 30/06/14 11:36 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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[snip] |
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> > But... if you unmask it, someone will test it and report whether |
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> > it works :P. |
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> But... if I unmask it, -everyone- using ~arch will install it and |
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> it'll break all the systems that it doesn't work on, which -could- be |
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> quite a lot at this point. :D |
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Yep. The good old days ... X11 going modular ... expat-2 and a few |
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others that I've forgotten. |
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There was no news then so if you missed an email to the list you got to |
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pick up the pieces. Those examples may well be me missing emails. |
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I've run ~arch since mid 2002 and until the last few years always had a |
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few builds fail or things build then operate so badly they needed to be |
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p.masked locally. That's what buildpkg is for ... so that after you |
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spend 10 hours building *office and find out its a dud, you can back it |
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out in a few minutes. |
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Regards, |
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Roy Bamford |
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