Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage Integrity (Was: gcc ebuild's, downgrades, deletion etc)

[Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 06:17:09PM -0500, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:12:04PM -0800, Matt Tucker wrote:
> > -- Spider <spider@gentoo.org> spake thusly:
> > 
> > > begin  quote
> > > On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 06:19:17 -0700
> > > Alain Penders <alain@gentoo.org> wrote:

[snip]

> 
> My opinion here is: if you don't have the time to take a look at the 
> diff, don't accept the bug containing the ebuild. Pass it on to someone 
> who does have the time rather than risk borkage by just copying the old 
> ebuild.
> 

Just to add a few more thoughts: the user took the time to modify the 
old ebuild to work properly with the new version, test it, and submit it 
- a significant investment of time. To then not even take the time to do 
a diff and look over the changes is the same as saying "I don't value 
your contribution." That's not a good approach at all and certainly 
won't encourage people to help out.

-- 
Jon Portnoy

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