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Duncan wrote:
> The point being, however, that all this quarreling about "official"
> package managers doesn't /really/ have to happen. [...]
> I just don't see why so many are spending
> so much time arguing over it, when regardless, people are goi
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Duncan wrote:
> However, now that PMS is finally about to provide what should be a
> definitive description of current generation package behavior, with the
> announced intention to update this with new versions into the future as
> required, the de
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hello;
I'm just a gentoo user who has been lurking for a while trying to find
a useful way to help my linux distro. Gentoo was recommended to be as a
good way to get into linux and to rapidly understand the difference
between the way linux wor
On Sunday 01 April 2007, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 23:39 +0100, Steve Long wrote:
> > Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> > > That's uncalled for. There's no need to get nasty.
> >
> > I applaud your intent, but feel it would have far more effect on the
> > atmosphere if applied to a few
> Michael Krelin wrote:
>>> The question is whether scripts that, say, parse emerge -pv output have
>>> to carry on working.
>> I think this requirement would put portage itself in quite uncomfortable
>> situation.
>>
> It's a non-issue imo; it's up to script authors and maintainers (aka users)
>
On Saturday 31 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Too late for all the affected users tho. Point is it's a major
> > security hole which no sane organisation would even consider for
> > mission-critical code.
>
> These arguments are getting weaker and wea
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 23:39 +0100, Steve Long wrote:
> Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> > That's uncalled for. There's no need to get nasty.
>
> I applaud your intent, but feel it would have far more effect on the
> atmosphere if applied to a few of your devs, rather than users who employ
> milder terms?
On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:27:19 +0100
Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stephen Bennett wrote:
> > ... Gentoo developers can take the latest release of said package
> > manager and continue development from that. That's the wonderful
> > thing about the GPL, no?
>
> Too late for all the affecte
> Duncan wrote:
>> A segment of an already minor segment (certainly currently, tho that
>> /may/ eventually change), not likely to be something that can reasonably
>> be characterized as benefiting Gentoo as a whole, at least in the near
>> to
>> medium term, and beyond that, well, things remain up
