On 2/2/10, Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix - <omp...@eircom.net> wrote: > I appear to have offended some people yesterday, for this I say sorry, > please read on and I will try to give the same message without the rant. > > I did lash out pretty hard yesterday, the reason is that in the past > people have come into the gNewSense space and whipped up a "lets do > this" and left it there. > > This is bad for all involved and those who are running the project have > a lot to carry. Allow me use a Gaelic phrase. > > "Is trom Cearc i bhfad." > (Gealic) Translation: "A hen is heavy over a long distance." > > In other words what looks like something simple is quite a commitment > over time. So while starting it up and getting a release out the door is > not bad, please be aware that the maintaniace of many single changes > increases the problems faced by the project. > > When Brian and I started out we had a singular objective. > Even if we did not get far to make every step repeatable. > > The more single changes have to be managed the greater the gap from the > original source becomes. > > In the end with enough managed changes you would be better with your own > tree. However that would need about 5 or 6 full time people or at > least people who put a lot of effort into it. > > Pointing at Slackware would be a mistake Patrick has done a huge job but > he is at it full time and does not do multi arch (at least as far as I > know). > > So what have you got. > > For every change that takes place there is obviously some issue upstream. > > For every change that takes place when you rebuild the system you have > to debug new or altered versions of these packages. > > For every change that takes place you don't want regression of a freedom > bug. > > So perhaps this more than the last rant which was an explosion based on > what I saw as "here we go again" (and perhaps incorrectly), can explain > why I say, if you want to run something as vast as a different arch then > you really need to get familiar with that arch to see how its upstream > would cope. > > Hope this helps a bit. > > P. > > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > gNewSense-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users > +1
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