On 2011年07月08日 04:01, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 07/07/11 15:36, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> And what about gnome? Does that not impose a fantastic testing burden, >> alongside which gnome-mplayer is small in comparison? > > Yes, but the value of one's time isn't relative. If you'll allow me to > make up the numbers, just because it takes a month of time to test Gnome > doesn't mean that the day it would take to test gnome-mplayer is any > less valuable. In those eight hours you can still drink the same number > of beers, read the same number of books, or -- hell, in this case -- fix > the same number of bugs in other packages.
The time when you reply this message, you've already done that test > > >> How about the devs relook at this and do it sanely. When the major >> consumer of gtk+ (gnome itself) has a stable gtk+-3 very in stable, >> then other packages follow suit, not before. > > I don't think anyone would disagree that this is nice to have; you just > have to find someone to do the work. Writing ebuilds is fun, setting up > test environments and recompiling all day is not. >
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