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Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> writes: |
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> Part of the problmem might be too many quick+dirty hacks, another |
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> part's the philosophy of taking evrything as it comes from the |
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> upstream. It's not trivial to get out of this ;-o |
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First off, your comments seem to be some of the more sensible here. |
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Not that others are senseless just not much actual `what to do' |
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content has come through. |
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I'd hazard a guess that you may have hit a bigger problem than your |
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comment indicates. I'm pretty sure there would be great pressure to |
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use `quick and dirty hacks' to get stuff done when devs are nearly |
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always overworked. |
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> One little step out could be the OSS-QM project (http://oss-qm.metux.de/) |
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> It collects fixes for a lot packages and makes them accessible in 100% |
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> automated ways. So in a way it can be seen as an kind of overlay against |
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> the upstream. Most of the patches are things that upstream's tend to forget |
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> but importand for fully automated builds (eg. proper relocation, clean |
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> feature switching, fixing buildfiles, pkg-config, etc) - they do NOT harm |
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> the core functionality. So exactly what the vast majority of distro's |
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> patches do, but in generic (distro agnostic) ways. |
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The theory sounds very sensible. |
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After looking at that page and some of the links briefly it wasn't |
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clear to me where this is being used. I see a very short list of pkgs |
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being worked on.. and guessing it is because of being short handed |
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there. |
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But what wasn't clear is how work comes in and where it goes when it |
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goes out. |
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Are some distros offering these overhauled pkgs or what? |
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(Please excuse me if I'm missing obvious things on the pages) |
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PS-The `help' link under `navigation' brings up what appears to be |
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something it is not intended to, and may even be a hack on those pages |
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or something. (The content that comes up may even be sort of off the |
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wall.) |
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