-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robert Cernansky wrote: > Oh, if I can speak for me as a user I'll not like it. One of the major > advantage of Gentoo is easy maintenace (not mindless, but easy if you > know what you are doing) thanks to portage system. Another is > availability of large number of software in distribution. These two > together gives easily maintanable operating system - because of > portage and because I do not need to maintain lot of packages by > myself. >
I don't know what it is your point here. But i guess, yes, as an user you shouldn't be worried about it. This is just another way for cooperating with the project for those interested in doing so. > If I have some application that is not included in portage why > I decide to make an ebuild? Because I hope that then it will be > accepted and included to portage, so maintained by developers (big > thanks for this). If I have to take care of package + ebuild + > dependencies, I'll rather choose not to make an ebulid but compile > package right from .tar.gz archive. > Dependencies are not 'magically' solved. Somebody needs to initially takes care of them. > Sorry for being such a bad user. But I'm pretty busy mostly so I'm > glad If I find time to make an initial ebuild and submit. In that > case, I see no problem to submit right to bugzilla and dicuss/fix/test > the ebuild there. > That is a different way to cooperate with us. > I would agree with your points of user responsibilty to solve bugs, > dependencies and so on, but only until package is accepted and > included to portage. > We need to know before committing this stuff to the tree that the user will compromise at some degree. And this kind of work is a good sign of it. We already have too many unmaintained stuff. - -- Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org" Gentoo Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEylbXdZ42PGEF17URAiJ8AJ4hhP8DN5W6eRa9MTBA5md+qaLyRQCfW2Oe jhsfuMDxntw7okoD4qI1Zrg= =4ms8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
