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Andrew Cowie wrote: |
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> Karl, Josh, and friends, |
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> Given the furball that is erupting on gentoo-dev, I think that you need |
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> to make a very decisive point and make it quickly. I therefore recommend |
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> that you go ahead and merge all the migration packages to the official |
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> portage tree *now*. |
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> They will all be in ~arch, of course. Where absolutely necessary you can |
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> hard-mask, but I think that a slightly less than perfect migration now |
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> is better than getting sucked into the overlay madhouse. That |
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> conversation is long beyond redemption, and rather than wasting energy |
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> getting caught up trying to swim alongside it, just merge your work and |
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> let a wider audience participate in finishing the job. |
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> If manual action is necessary during the upgrade process, well, that's |
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> certainly nothing people are unprepared to encounter. This is Gentoo |
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> after all. |
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> Now that I think of it, this is, after all, "release early, release |
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> often". So pull the trigger, baby: freeze over, merge to HEAD. |
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> Good luck, and thanks for all the hard work. |
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> AfC |
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> Sydney |
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Thanks for the input AfC. |
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Actually, this was already my intention. I hope to put the changes in |
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today, or possibly tomorrow. |
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Right now, I'm working on some loose ends. In particular, getting the |
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user documentation cleaned up, renaming the java eselect module to |
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java_vm, and converting the wiki 'using migraiton-overlay' into guidexml. |
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- - Josh |
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