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Here's a basic summary from the way I see it from watching the |
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discussion. |
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On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 21:42, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: |
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> Good point. Could we know the reason it's being considered? If it's license |
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> philosophy. If there are other reasons can we know them and maybe comment on |
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> them, too? |
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How about because they asked us to? Essentially, we have been asked to |
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not create an automated process to allow a user to install winex from |
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cvs. The anonymous cvs is there for people to assist in development |
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with winex. Technically, there is nothing stopping us from continuing |
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to provide winex-cvs ebuilds. However, Gentoo is part of a larger |
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community and quite simply, you don't maintain your status as a useful |
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member of the community if you go around pissing off your neighbors. In |
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fact, there is nothing keeping Transgaming from pulling the anonymous |
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cvs access for the winex sources from sourceforge and making it |
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available to subscriber's only. |
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> many apps (not just games) that's an important consideration. Yes, we could |
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> get it from Transgaming but then I have to install a non-ebuild app on my |
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> system and I lose the advantages of portage. |
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Copy your winex tarballs to /usr/portage/distfiles and emerge |
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winex-transgaming. The ebuild which installs the binary version of |
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winex isn't going anywhere. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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