Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
To: alexander@××××××.net
Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/3] Have repoman check if the packages to unpack rare archive formats from SRC_URI are present in DEPEND (bug #205909).
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:03:23
Message-Id: 20140117000221.46fbfa2e@TOMWIJ-GENTOO
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/3] Have repoman check if the packages to unpack rare archive formats from SRC_URI are present in DEPEND (bug #205909). by Alexander Berntsen
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4 On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:22:44 +0100
5 Alexander Berntsen <alexander@××××××.net> wrote:
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7 > Your ill-placed attempts at being clever are missing the point.
8
9 Why are they missing the point?
10
11 > Portage is a mess. We don't need it to become more messy to the point
12 > of maintainability.
13
14 How do we plan to fix that?
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16 > Yes, no one fixing bugs (because they are all designing a grand
17 > redesign of Portage) would be bad.
18
19 Do you agree?
20
21 > However, this is not likely to happen.
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23 Why do you think so?
24
25 > It hasn't happened before.
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27 It could happen in the future.
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29 > And now we have a bunch of great new volunteers.
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31 Yes, we do.
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33 > Sebastian even *told* you specifically how to do this properly.
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35 Where did he?
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37 > So please do.
38
39 Why?
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41 - --
42 With kind regards,
43
44 Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
45 Gentoo Developer
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47 E-mail address : TomWij@g.o
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