Re: [gentoo-dev] ebuilds for kde3 beta etc.

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 02:46:48PM +0100, Bart Verwilst wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> My mail server is back online, so here i am again, i hope i didn't
> miss too much of all this though :o(
> One of the main reasons that i asked on IRC if we could have our
> crew.gentoo.org/verwilst or people.gentoo.org/verwilst dirs, is for
> stuff like this... The ebuilds that would be posted on each dev's 
> 'personal' site will generally be of much better quality then loose
> ebuilds found anywhere else... Having those 'pre-portage' ebuilds helps 
> us refine and test the ebuilds without making some user messing up his
> system if he/she decides to ignore all the warnings and disclaimers..
> For the KDE3 ebuilds, if danarmak and me use them before KDE3 final is
> released, we'll have a rock-solid eclass implementation of the multi-.
> KDE's and qt's... ( And ofcourse our bugreports to KDE will help
> producing a better KDE 3 release, but that's another story ;o)
> But gentoo-users should have the option of using stable ebuilds for
> their alpha/beta software, or they'll make their own ebuilds, and break
> maybe even more on their system :)

You can already set up http://cvs.gentoo.org/~verwilst using a public_html
dir, if you like.  You just need to make it possible for anyone to rx your
homedir and your public_html directory.

-- 
Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President                       http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.