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 1L9KuE-000134-DP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:46:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B64E2E0267; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 14:46:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D726E0267 for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2008 14:46:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so433112ugs.39 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:46:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=J075JUnmUfSxf9Dkh1BM4K+61+rTJL6PWanSt+YN4b0=; b=D6886T7dlIw09jxOhJshYBIqLRwpMunl3ayVJez5cnr4VXQQHLBOkbJK51Tolg/ugx FV/H4pMpFih+0J0QBzcpPSPCYouE/WhO3OjeNY9IWAl4P6AniwUzM4Kv10LjQDm6wy8s DylSUb//TprLSNi+s3S00IfmctUxTz+rGkaL8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=Tszq787He+IBkGR+XESqzaMAkkn0Pif8aD1QUZ4jwfSvo8fPwTEyLXRfN4W5sL0JSC wnKa+lWJdlEJZicnbV6obO/29Ig+0i3U0s6BmINNB/DWCjZjjlQFnaHwmWDSf0jNFURs drdrDWo3DRWswvBesT7BTUPEg+DH+mishklz4= Received: by 10.66.245.2 with SMTP id s2mr1472905ugh.66.1228661201603; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:46:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowcone (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.sgyl.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w40sm3117226ugc.6.2008.12.07.06.46.40 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:46:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 14:46:33 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/eselect needs YOUR help Message-ID: <20081207144633.3d233dc8@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20081207074439.GB8968@comet.hsd1.or.comcast.net> References: <49398A33.2070203@gentoo.org> <20081206154415.37b1c14e@snowcone> <20081207074439.GB8968@comet.hsd1.or.comcast.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1 (GTK+ 2.14.4; 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_/XgyS2u.tUxcnDdMoc6R+peb"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: e5e96504-c957-4f76-920d-a8416b517bf1 X-Archives-Hash: 6cfd1060f30ab7920a284295fd5c12e9 --Sig_/XgyS2u.tUxcnDdMoc6R+peb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 23:44:40 -0800 Donnie Berkholz 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. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/XgyS2u.tUxcnDdMoc6R+peb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkk74cwACgkQ96zL6DUtXhH39wCfc/Np0YczM4Ak6ITAub6tNbmS 4U8AnA1s/zF/dwcpatQGCJgF00NZy7KP =tScU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/XgyS2u.tUxcnDdMoc6R+peb--