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From: Dan Meltzer <parallelgrapefruit@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:36:44
Message-Id: 46059ce10703142033u2ed5271fkd5ffa7d10e31c0e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On 3/14/07, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org> wrote:
2 > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:45:01 +0100 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
3 > wrote:
4 > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > > > QA is supposed to avoid fixing other people's code where things are
6 > > > actively maintained.
7 > >
8 > > I usually ask before messing with other's stuff but if I find
9 > > something wrong I rather fix it myself while I'm at it (and I'm quite
10 > > happy if people does the same for my stuff).
11 > >
12 > > in the genstef vs hansmi example if hansmi just asked genstef if he
13 > > mind if he just change the masking to the proper one and just commit
14 > > the local fix he had in place to make paludis happy probably won't be
15 > > much to argue.
16 >
17 > Paludis had nothing to do with that. It was a Portage change that
18 > required the update.
19
20 hansmi's log was from 1-06-2007. The change in portage was added
21 1-23-07. This was before the discussion and portage fix, when the
22 reason was pure paludis.
23 (http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage?rev=5760&view=rev)
24 >
25 > --
26 > Ciaran McCreesh
27 > Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org
28 > Web : http://ciaranm.org/
29 > Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
30 >
31 >
32 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>