On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > i'm just wondering the correct way to approach this from the gentoo > social structure. >
I wouldn't worry about niceties. > do i : 1 make the ebuild my self and contribute it Depends on your purpose. If you want it for yourself, hack the ebuild. If you want to be nice, contribute it. My experience is ebuilds contributed in this fashion don't get looked at terribly quickly but that may just have been an anomaly. > 2: contact the maintainer of this ebuild and ask nicly Easier to just do it yourself. > 3: wait How badly do you want it? > 4: hack the ebuild and download the file ? > That's what I do. > it's not urgent that i have this version or anything, i'm just curiuos, > so i can learn "how things are done" > Again, it depends on what your goal is. If you want to be a developer or contributor, you need to play by rules. If you just want the new package to work on your system, there are no rules. Ric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
