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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/eselect needs YOUR help
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 14:46:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081207144633.3d233dc8@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081207074439.GB8968@comet.hsd1.or.comcast.net>

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On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:44:40 -0800
Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I hadn't heard of it before, thanks for the ref. What was the reason
> for forking the codebase? It gets pretty annoying to copy across
> useful changes, especially while eselect is stuck in svn.

Ease of getting things done. Going through Gentoo requires finding a
Gentoo maintainer, endless bikeshed arguments about how to implement
things like the new alternatives framework and then months of waiting
for approval.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-07 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-05 20:08 [gentoo-dev] app-admin/eselect needs YOUR help Doug Goldstein
2008-12-06 15:44 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-12-07  7:44   ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-12-07 14:46     ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-12-08 16:37       ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-12-08 17:44         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-12-08 18:19           ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-12-08 18:28           ` nikos roussos
2008-12-08 18:33             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-12-08 19:00           ` Geralt
2008-12-08 17:49         ` Wulf C. Krueger
2008-12-08 20:56           ` Alec Warner
2008-12-08 21:30             ` Ferris McCormick
2008-12-09 13:54         ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long

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