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While French is high in my personal hit list of languages I hate the |
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most, I chose the language for this mail subject as I think it fits |
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here. |
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ppc-macos is dead, long live ppc-macos |
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Is ppc-macos a phoenix, that reborns from its own ashes? Would be nice, |
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but I think not entirely. With the ppc-macos team going down from once |
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17 to now 2 people, of which one actively supporting the main tree, and |
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that one person being me, I feel I'm done with it now. ppc-macos in the |
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tree as it is now is going to die, unless someone steps up to maintain |
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it. I personally, am done with it, in the form it is, which is more |
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trouble than happyness sometimes. |
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What drove me to that descision? The new council? Not really. What |
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really drove me there is the existence of a prefixed portage, and a tree |
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where I have Vim and Mutt, as most important proofs of concept. |
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Unfortunately the amd64 variant of the prefix isn't entirely working |
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yet, with many linker problems, but for OSX it seems to work fine. |
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Actually, it seems to work better. And I'm quite happy with it like |
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this. |
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Personally, I'm fed up with the whole Gentoo system, and the heavy doors |
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you can only slightly open with the most efforts. Kito being mia, also |
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means one of the biggest driving forces behind prefixed portage being |
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gone. Exg is busy, which leaves me, not knowledgable enough for most of |
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the stuff I've done here to get it working. I won't really be surprised |
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if it's done not entirely correct, but so it is. I'm not going to pull |
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the prefix car, write the glep and try to get it accepted by the rest. |
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I know prefix is working now. I use it in the situations where I wanted |
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to have it. I know there will be people completely killing it. I hope |
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there will be people that would like to have it, and see something in |
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it. For me, the proof is there. It is "done". I greatly feel |
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innovations have no place within Gentoo, which is the biggest cause for |
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it's big decay. We should have a "sync mechanism" for our prefix tree. |
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I feel stuck, and in the mudd, I've come far enough to know I was right. |
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This is not exactly my resignition lettre. Officially I shouldn't |
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exist, even. I just want to tell that I've finally given up on |
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ppc-macos in the main tree as it is. I don't need it any more. |
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Maybe someone should send this to gentoo-dev even... not sure. |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Lost Soul From the Gentoo for Mac OS X Town |
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