From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCQyf-0007Wt-R0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 02:47:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CFFEDE0DB9; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 02:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org (170.Red-213-96-222.staticIP.rima-tde.net [213.96.222.170]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C93E7E0DB9 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 02:47:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFEC48D306 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:53:50 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at ferdyx.org Received: from smtp.ferdyx.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (tungsteno.ferdyx.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id wZQ0snxEcdDu for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:53:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from snowcone (unknown [213.121.151.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.ferdyx.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B188D305 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:53:49 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 02:47:24 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Message-ID: <20080109024724.12bd71fc@snowcone> In-Reply-To: References: <20080101103002.083C4652C4@smtp.gentoo.org> <20080105043233.0935d2f8@snowcone> <61307.68.54.223.178.1199541823.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com> <20080106003356.46087fef@snowcone> <20080106233412.5875626f@snowcone> <1199829889.8108.12.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20080109021735.42cd3856@snowcone> <1199846287.8108.143.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20080109024125.3bfc9479@snowcone> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/R2wTyjPl/lF8oKEmOGIyOK+"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 6e594696-0b1a-4780-b300-30b06325e59c X-Archives-Hash: 9d84a733b15b5fd894f894d11bce4147 --Sig_/R2wTyjPl/lF8oKEmOGIyOK+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 18:44:22 -0800 "Alec Warner" wrote: > > Uh... So where do the original problems come from? Are you saying > > that packages mysteriously start breaking on their own because > > no-one's maintaining them? >=20 > Of course they do Ah, right. Because of the magical elf that lives in the CVS server that mysteriously goes around breaking dependencies when no-one's looking. Yes, a magical elf. Much more plausible than the theory that it's actually developers screwing up by dropping keywords or best keyworded version on a package's deps. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/R2wTyjPl/lF8oKEmOGIyOK+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHhDW+96zL6DUtXhERAmI0AKCSwMny6HyM76RnqO26cCn12UbMVQCdHOom RGv7RNR/hbYcCUBfnuBy9HY= =HolN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/R2wTyjPl/lF8oKEmOGIyOK+-- -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list