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Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Okay, here it goes: |
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> I think we could need a better support for binary packages. |
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> There was a thread in here a few months ago about how to offer binary |
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> packages for customers. As far as I remember the problem was (and still |
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> is) that there is no easy way to check the packages for corruption |
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> (trojans, stuff like that). |
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I know some things are only available as a binary but Gentoo is about |
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compiling your own packages. Binaries are for Redhat, Mandrake and |
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such. I moved away from that for good reason. |
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> In my opinion the end result should be something like a build server |
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> that builds and provides a set of packages with different USE- and |
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> CFLAGS, possibly even accepting automatic requests from clients. |
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> Everything could be digitally signed and distributed over a network. |
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> Other things to improve? A better documentation on USE-flags. In my |
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> opinion every maintainer should provide as much information as possible |
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> on what exactly a USE-flag changes. At the moment it's the |
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> administrator's responsibility to find this out. Not really a good idea |
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> on production systems if you ask me ... |
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I would love to see better documentation of the USE flag and what they |
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do exactly. Some of them are so cryptic that even a google search is |
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useless. Alsa is pretty straight forward but what is winpopup for |
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Kopete exactly? Euse -i reports back, "Builds WinPopUp protocol |
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handler" but what the heck is that exactly? I'm thinking a little more |
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info would be really really neat. Make google something that is not |
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needed maybe. |
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> Maybe we could also improve our user-dev relations. I hardly if ever see |
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> a dev or bug wrangler responding to threads in the user list even when |
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> they concern Gentoo as a whole (like this one and its predecessors). |
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This is something that has been tried before. There just seems to be a |
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few that doesn't think users and devs should be able to talk. Bad thing |
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about -dev mailing list is that it only takes one to ruin it. |
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> I know, all this should be redirected to bugzilla but since they are not |
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> high priority problems and I can't - at least for now - help solving |
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> them, I don't like to bother our had working devs and bug wranglers with |
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> stuff like that. |
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> - Florian Philipp |
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Bugzilla is not the place for this, yet anyway. I would usually say |
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-project but there is very little activity on it so this is as good a |
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place as any I guess. IMHO anyway. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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