From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29375 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Apr 2003 01:06:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12576 invoked from network); 25 Apr 2003 01:06:18 -0000 Message-ID: <49861.192.168.1.70.1051232506.squirrel@gentoo.lan> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 02:01:46 +0100 (BST) From: "Stroller" To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Reply-To: stroller@bigfoot.com X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Ebuilds not getting in :( X-Archives-Salt: ca1b3f84-3c75-4bf6-b4a3-230013217fb4 X-Archives-Hash: 6a4a0e96065ea2c094e49749d6356306 On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 04:50 am, George Shapovalov wrote: > On Wednesday 23 April 2003 17:32, Stroller wrote: >> On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 02:17 pm, Peter Ruskin wrote: >>> On Tuesday 22 Apr 2003 13:59, Frantz Dhin wrote: >>>> ... maybe we could make a >>>> new keyword? x86 for stable, ~x86 for unstable, and ^x86 for >>>> lunatic? >>> I couldn't agree more! >> Me, either! I don't know that "lunatic" is the best word, but it >> seems to me that an additional hierarchy [0] allows for a framework >> more flexible & extensible for end lusers. As I understand it builds >> with the > Unfortunately this is not that easy. Just accepting ebuild in and > letting them > rot is either a dead-end or a security breach (or both :). .... > Please take a look at #1523 to see what's on the plate ;). >> [1] Am I correctly abbreviating "^86, ^ppc or whatever" here? Yeah, sorry. I'm clearly not qualified to comment. I decided to make my reply before reading others about multiple rsync servers &c. My main reason for posting was to object to the suggestion of naming a USE flag after a hypothetical Honda. I haven't had the chance to read your full proposal yet, but just the title of "Distributed ebuild processing system" sounds inspiring - I look forward to giving it my full attention, and eventually to seeing the results. Stroller. -- Enjoyed this post? Thanks for reading - Give me a job! Technical support / system administration Linux / Unix / Windows / Mac OS X - UK or anywhere considered -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list