From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1850 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Oct 2003 04:14:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 13354 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2003 04:14:49 -0000 Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 13:14:46 +0900 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20031004041446.GC14012%chutz@gg3.net> References: <004f01c38950$5177f1b0$8000a8c0@1d36l> <20031003015853.GA7332%chutz@gg3.net> <00f301c38956$517bb380$8000a8c0@1d36l> <20031002211711.41d9210c.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <20031003063019.GA11505%chutz@gg3.net> <20031003002045.3ef71d4e.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> <20031003131536.GD12607%chutz@gg3.net> <20031003105740.6e09135b.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="T4sUOijqQbZv57TR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031003105740.6e09135b.cbrewer@stealthaccess.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i-ja.1 From: Georgi Georgiev Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.80 (Determine) X-Primary-Address: chutz@gg3.net Reply-To: Georgi Georgiev Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SuSE Kernel Sources X-Archives-Salt: 94ce2e00-fb8d-4208-abf8-9db4ff879752 X-Archives-Hash: 3a9988827f937deae09ab21c00a36c63 --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 03/10/2003 at 10:57:40(-0700), C. Brewer used 1.5K just to say: > I hear what you're saying, but I guess I wasn't particularly clear. > Basically, you have the fix for it, and it's nice, and it works. However, > what I was trying to get at is this- rather than write an eclass, why not > fix the package itself and kick it back to Slack? This idea was also in one of the comments of the bug. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D23249#c13 (second comment from the bottom for now) > Sure, there's a chance > they won't care to change it, and the eclass would be necessary, but now > we're at a point with everyone fixing everything, the tree is getting to > carry almost the amount of patches as it does packages. So I apologize if > I'm unclear or frustrated, but it feels as if rather than sharpen an old > knife to do the work, we just make a new knife. I realize that's not the > intent of anyone, but if the fixes and work arounds don't get back > upstream, how long until patches and fixes do outweigh the packages? > (I'm up to ~60k files from the ~20k when I first installed!) --=20 /\ Georgi Georgiev /\ A real friend isn't someone you use once and /\ \/ chutz@gg3.net \/ then throw away. A real friend is someone \/ /\ +81(90)6266-1163 /\ you can use over and over again. /\ --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/fkk2fXO2NUT1EmYRAtf3AKDQiJeF4qDWsttbrjXgX24Cot8MmQCg54dv 5K4MWYuwdljayMP/xyLq1Kc= =ehCa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--