Duncan wrote:
> Alin Năstac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> excerpted below, on  Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:59:56 +0200:
> 
>> Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>> why do you feel the need to label crap as "official" ?
>> Because I consider it should be maintained by Gentoo devs.
> 
> Additionally tho I don't know if it applies in this specific case,
> "official overlay" could mean bugs filed on something else, that happen
> to mention a package in the "official overlay" aren't automatically closed
> as invalid, as they could be if it were "Joe Blow's overlay", but
> generally aren't if the package is in the official tree.
> 
> As an entirely theoretical but possible example, if I have xmms still in
> overlay and installed, and happen to mention that an audio problem occurs
> in xmms and (say) amarok, the fact that I have xmms merged, particularly if
> it's still from an "official overlay" shouldn't be reason to close the bug
> happening also in amarok, altho that sort of closure does happen when
> package are installed independently or from "Joe Blow's overlay".
> 

Duncan,

Off thread topic... Start something new... and please use something else
other then xmms as an example or we're going to ignore it.

-- 
Doug Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/

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