On Mon, 5 May 2008, James Carlson wrote:

> In this case, no extra repository would have helped.

It would have helped me. As it is, I had to go out, get the sources, 
compile them and it didn't compile the first time straight out of the 
tarball, I had to try a few different options.

> The problem was
> that the person working on the package in question had other
> commitments.  You could find this out by asking the people involved.

I'm not even trying to push them, more so just pointing out that nobody in 
our community has benifited from Alpine, and I had to build it myself and 
am using it now to send this reply.

> I think you're entirely misreading the situation.

Maybe so, that's why I wanted your opinion. Would like to hear some 
others.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
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