From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1QKHUDK016150 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:17:31 GMT Received: from uconnvm.uconn.edu ([137.99.26.3]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D58NW-0000KQ-3p for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 20:17:30 +0000 Received: from [137.99.149.56] [137.99.149.56] by UConnVM.UConn.Edu (IBM VM SMTP Level 3A0) via TCP with ESMTP ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:17:16 EST Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) In-Reply-To: <20050226185855.55155173@snowdrop> References: <20050226181537.5842160c@snowdrop> <4220C4E3.9040200@gentoo.org> <20050226185855.55155173@snowdrop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lina Pezzella Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Messing with other people's packages Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:17:29 -0500 To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.0.2 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Archives-Salt: 023cdf69-4d7f-4fa2-a231-6167811be17f X-Archives-Hash: e9cbbbe134f0f485e39d0717a8830ef9 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 26, 2005, at 1:58 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > Didn't we decide that arch specific patches were a bad idea? I hope not; there are plenty of archs that need arch-specific patches. Of course in the case that the patch is not truly arch-specific, but is being applied to a single arch only out of "courtesy" to the maintainter, I would say that it is a bad idea. My general approach to this second case is to make the change arch-specific and then file a bug and/or email to the maintainer to make it arch-independent. I also throw a todo in my calendar reminding me to bug the said maintainer if there is no reply in 1 month. Lina Pezzella Ebuild/Porting Co-Lead Gentoo for Mac OS X -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQFCINlZNJ9STR9DbYERAhxCAJ9fDLcZ641QTMOnXnmqfcUro62HSACbBkjA RwBWcIto3RjYVPm8V8rWoSE= =5lJ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list