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 1JbCff-0004Hw-1Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:34:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 697BCE0565; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vsmtp4.tin.it (vsmtp4.tin.it [212.216.176.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38189E0565 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:34:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.102] (82.60.59.241) by vsmtp4.tin.it (7.3.122) id 47BAAEC701A293B2 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:34:20 +0100 Message-ID: <47DE4909.4000804@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:33:45 +0100 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080228) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9 slotting or not? References: <47DBF558.7030705@gentoo.org> <47DCBE68.5000109@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 86172d80-b4ef-444a-8947-bc37ea91bcf3 X-Archives-Hash: 6830b7b3c51ad39bc5bdecf5d04ce252 Duncan wrote: > Unslotted xulrunner seems to be the consensus, so we aren't committing to > "forever" maintain patches ourselves -- on a package-base that may well > expand over time. The consensus is to have updated applications, the new xulrunner seems quite an improvement so make _quite_ sense move towards it. > Some questions. What's the possibility of getting upstream to handle the > renaming, thereby making slotting much easier while eliminating the > "eternal" patch commitment? Has the issue even been brought up with > mozilla-upstream? I know they aren't always the most receptive to > community suggestions, but it's worth asking, anyway. Discussing with upstream this would be good as well, BUT you shouldn't rely on that. > How many packages are we talking about? A list had been produced already and is relatively short and some are just nsplugins (and those shouldn't require a change) lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list