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 1FE6pr-0007p7-5k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:32:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SFR4NI014623; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:27:04 GMT Received: from callisto.cs.kun.nl (callisto.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.75]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1SFL8Ls031015 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:21:08 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by callisto.cs.kun.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40822E8216 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:22:08 +0100 (CET) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:22:08 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060226222217.GB17257@aerie.halcy0n.com> <200602281134.49898.pauldv@gentoo.org> <20060228144720.351d37b3@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20060228144720.351d37b3@snowdrop.home> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW 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="nextPart1298033.9S02UKQdqx"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602281622.08444.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: cd6a8fa0-d1f2-4c8e-86a8-d7ade9eefae6 X-Archives-Hash: 68babfdbb5c33cce2ac5357d56372b3b --nextPart1298033.9S02UKQdqx Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:47, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > 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? No, not in an arbitrary way. Those fixes should be discussed, and the path= =20 of least problems chosen. Waiting on portage to catch on however has=20 shown to be a dead end. One of the reasons that webapp-config was=20 developed is exactly because of the fact that portage does not offer=20 certain features (although I don't know whether portage should offer=20 these). What I mean is that if portage is a limiting factor, we should try to find= =20 a solution that allows incorporation of the package or feature instead of=20 not having it. Doing so is only alright when it has been properly=20 discussed. It is not alright to just introduce mess. There is indeed no=20 strict line between the two. That's where QA comes in. To make the=20 judgement. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart1298033.9S02UKQdqx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEBGqgbKx5DBjWFdsRAi9oAJ9ye95V5bi3nl9+FDQkJ7kUpfQbfQCgsS9t oYhYzOLvFITu9nG1L7ol9do= =GL/7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1298033.9S02UKQdqx-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list