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On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:17:54 -0800 |
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Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 10:27:30PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > * Don't mess with kdebuild until you're sure that no-one has any |
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> > kdebuild packages installed. |
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> I'm not looking to start a fight, and frankly after a year or so I've |
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> learned to just subconsciously/automatically ignore kdebuild, but why |
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> exactly must this be in pms? |
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Because we have not yet established that no users have kdebuild things |
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installed. Thus, package managers that support it have to go on |
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supporting it. |
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Once kdebuild can be safely removed from package managers that have |
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supported it, it can then be removed from PMS. |
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> It's experimental w/ low user acceptance, and was fundamentally |
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> outside the gentoo mainstream. If long term maintenance of it is |
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> desired for anyone who hasn't yet punted those ebuilds from their |
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> vdb, maintain it in a branch rather then the effective head (don't |
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> make the mainline suffer maintenance for something that was outside |
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> mainline). |
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Branches are for use when you can't use better mechanisms. We have |
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better mechanisms. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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