On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:54:23 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:45:01 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | may i politely ask why it is included in the portage tree at all? is > | this a way is distributing to developers? I thought that was what cvs > | was for? or is cvs just for the tools actually developed by gentoo > | devs (eg gentoolkit) as opposed to the ebuilds themselves? > > It's mostly so that the relevant people (some Gentoo developers and a > few friendly xorg people) can do appropriate testing and patch creation. > Despite what the original poster might suggest, that ebuild isn't > totally broken -- it's enough for us to try to get xaa fixed, at > least... ok that makes sense, i guess theres no point in having too many distribution channels, as long as everyone undertsnds what -*, ~x86 etc all mean! > > -- > Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) > Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org > Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
