Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds not getting in :(

[Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <ragnar@linalco.com>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:59:30PM +0200, Frantz Dhin wrote:
> I feel your pain. Usually it takes several weeks before the ebuild
> updates I submit get accepted, and if at all, they usually they get
> accepted unaltered, which makes those weeks a waste of time.
> 
> I wish stuff could get into the unstable branch of Gentoo much easier. I
> would like to see some people with freedom to roam the tree accept
> things into unstable, and not have everything depend on if a branch
> maintainer has time or interest currently or not. Gentoo is supposed to
> be bleeding edge, but fact is that 30-35% of the packages in portage
> tree are at least one version behind. A too large share of developer
> resources external to the official gentoo developer team remains largely
> unused. 

I'll add a "me too", it feels like getting a patch inside the kernel and
I've given up on submitting new things until the (at least precieved)
situation improves.

It cant be testing what takes so long.. you just have to see the masked -
unmasked - ooops masked again dances or things that just dont compile
avi-xmms or broken sandbox ebuilds like metakit.

I'm not blaming anyone, it's just that I would had never expected would have
to use stow to keep up to date with gentoo. :/

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