> On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:45:38 +0200 > arfrever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał: >> > I commented this out of package.mask. x11-libs/fox-1.2.6-r2 still >> > uses it. Need to fix that up before masking it. >> >> These not numerous packages still using virtual/x11 can be fixed >> after masking it. Almost nobody uses them. Masking virtual/x11 could >> urge some developers to fix these packages. > > Breaking the tree, and thus end user systems, is not an acceptable way > of getting people to fix things. It doesn't make any difference to > developers who haven't fixed their packages, only to users.
It's acceptable to me. I'd rather see us make progress than postpone changes for months while devs bicker about changes to be made. That would not be the case if say, people had the balls to just fix things in the tree. However we have this fun system where you have to incessantly contact the maintainer in order to get anything done lest they cry and moan and run to the council because 'you touched their precious package'. -Alec PS: For those non-native speakers, portions of my reply were tongue-in-cheek. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
