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Everybody thanks for the feedback to my GLEP(35). |
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The discussion about it started on 2005/03/13. |
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What I figured out so far is that some proposed changes are already covered in |
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repoman.That is even better because some of the work is already done then. |
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But how come that there are still trivial errors if half of the GLEP is |
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covered and everybody is using repoman? |
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I agree that changes on ebuilds should be done only by the developers. I will |
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change this point in the GLEP. |
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To post errors to a website and send some mails is just a form of |
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implementation that I do not worry about right now. To use both and let dev`s |
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choose from it would be a good thing though. |
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Somebody mentioned that I am not aware of gentoo dev practices. That`s right. |
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I tried to become aware of it but I could not find anything useful. Maybe I |
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have not found the right documents or there are none i.e. I do not want to |
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read portage source to figure out what is going on. |
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Maybe I should also add some motivation why to do this: |
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There have been some talks about bringing Gentoo to the enterprise. For me |
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this is not important and I do not care but this will never work if the |
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quality is not checked at least to some degree. |
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Also I do not like the mentality somebody put up that was like this: "I don`t |
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mind fixing wrong URL`s - it is a matter of seconds." |
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If you work for some customer (i.e. gentoo users) and they find simple errors |
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that they might fix by themselves. What might they think ? |
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Why not "kill" all these errors faster and take upon the hard things? |
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I hat to open a root shell, fix the error, run the command again (find another |
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error ?), start up firefox, login to bugs, check if somebody caught the |
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error, file a bug .... hope you get the point. |
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It might be possible that i.e. for ONE week one developer is responsible for |
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fixing ALL broken URL`s of all packages (does he really need to know about |
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the ebuild`s content ?). Although I don`t know how many broken URL`s there |
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might be ... |
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Please do not get me wrong like: somebody from "outside" tries to change the |
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system. I love Gentoo and I think it is a great system but there are things I |
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would like to improve. |
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Adrian Lambeck |
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