From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FE6Fw-00015U-1m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:55:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SEojb1013952; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:50:45 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1SEkVnj009232 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:46:32 GMT Received: from [213.121.151.206] (helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1FE68U-0003hM-FN for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:47:34 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FE68J-0002O8-Oa for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:47:23 +0000 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:47:20 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role Message-ID: <20060228144720.351d37b3@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <200602281134.49898.pauldv@gentoo.org> References: <20060226222217.GB17257@aerie.halcy0n.com> <1141071970.804.19.camel@demandred.gnqs.org> <20060227203709.2a7bff47@snowdrop.home> <200602281134.49898.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_vpT3GUvE_V2R3z.gE1g=+kA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 22cd72f0-ce99-4b1e-a9ed-dc1bcc99f805 X-Archives-Hash: f1ebfca789dd8305e188240e0b093d68 --Sig_vpT3GUvE_V2R3z.gE1g=+kA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:34:49 +0100 Paul de Vrieze wrote: | Once that is supported, I'm also sure that those people involved will | be more than happy to fix their ebuilds to use those features. I do | agree with them though that the distribution should not be held back | by missing features in portage. Especially since those features have | been missing (recognized as such) for ages. So until then, it's perfectly OK to screw over our users and fellow developers by committing any arbitrary mess to the tree and claiming that it's alright because Portage doesn't offer a perfect alternative? --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Sig_vpT3GUvE_V2R3z.gE1g=+kA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEBGJ796zL6DUtXhERAt6XAKDMfoxx1c2Ii4NYk1impJ6YKOS1YACdHpXA Y4CGfIjf24BDhKa5kJUOBDg= =O2X8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_vpT3GUvE_V2R3z.gE1g=+kA-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list