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* [gentoo-dev] !!!Really worried about ebuild updates!
@ 2002-04-21 23:51 al3x payne
  2002-04-22  2:37 ` Matthew Kennedy
  2002-04-22  3:32 ` George Shapovalov
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: al3x payne @ 2002-04-21 23:51 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-dev

To whom it may concern:

I'm really concerned about the number of ebuilds that are rapidly
becoming out of date.  I started using Gentoo, in part, because of the
currency of its packages and the ease of updates.  While I understand
that users can submit upgrade requests via bugs.gentoo.org, few package
maintainers seem to be responding to these.  I'm sure I'm not alone in
worrying that Gentoo packages will go the way of Debian: "dedicated"
package maintainers that update once in a blue moon.  Gentoo has, I
would say, an even more elegant system than apt-get; please don't let it
go to waste on antiquated ebuilds.

So this doesn't happen, was can we users do, proactively, to help
developers?  Clearly filing "please update" bugs isn't enough.  I don't
want to just complain; I want to help.  What can we do?  Thanks for your
time and hard work!

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al3x payne
e: al3x@al3x.net
w: http://www.al3x.net
p: 202.841.4706
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2002-04-21 23:51 [gentoo-dev] !!!Really worried about ebuild updates! al3x payne
2002-04-22  2:37 ` Matthew Kennedy
2002-04-22 12:13   ` Todd Wright
2002-04-23  6:34     ` Matthew Kennedy
2002-04-23 14:47     ` Alexander Gretencord
2002-04-23 15:46       ` Ryan Phillips
2002-04-22  3:32 ` George Shapovalov
2002-04-22  6:51   ` Richard Jackson
2002-04-22  6:55     ` Ryan Phillips

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