On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Olivier Crête <tes...@gentoo.org> wrote: > He has a perfectly reasonable argument that build time is really not > something you should be optimising for. Build systems easily become > overcomplicated if you try to make everyone happy, you do have to make > choices. Anyway, I'm not sure how that's related to the quality or > design of systemd.
Well, much as I don't like it, build systems not being adequate for Gentoo is not exactly a new thing. I maintain a package that embeds its version in the about/etc boxes by pulling data out of git, which doesn't exactly work well when I try to install it from a tarball (and their branch for building outside of git has a bug and dies). Oddly enough upstream combines this without tagging releases. So, I patch it, and fork it to github where I can tag my branches and prep tarballs. And I occasionally pester upstream to accept my patches. But, such things are not that unusual. Rich
