From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] app-admin/eselect needs YOUR help
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 08:37:42 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081208163742.GA2455@comet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081207144633.3d233dc8@snowcone>
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On 14:46 Sun 07 Dec , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> 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.
Open and public debate about the right way to do things does take
longer, and it's something you certainly participate in quite frequently
so I'm surprised to hear you badmouth it when it comes to your own
ideas.
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Thanks,
Donnie
Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-08 16:37 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
2008-12-08 16:37 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
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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