Re: [gentoo-java] Furball

["Wiktor Wandachowicz" <siryes@gmail.com>]

2006/6/24, Andrew Cowie <andrew@operationaldynamics.com>:
> Given the furball that is erupting on gentoo-dev, I think that you need
> to make a very decisive point and make it quickly. I therefore recommend
> that you go ahead and merge all the migration packages to the official
> portage tree *now*.
>
> If manual action is necessary during the upgrade process, well, that's
> certainly nothing people are unprepared to encounter. This is Gentoo
> after all.
>
> Now that I think of it, this is, after all, "release early, release
> often". So pull the trigger, baby: freeze over, merge to HEAD.

In one word: YES!

That would finaly bring the scale effect to the long-awaited change
of handling Java in Gentoo. More apt users willing to check -> more
bug reports -> more work resolwing them (on a short term) -> but
finally: a quicker adoption.

Having a separate overlay is a very clean and trouble-free approach.
However, it requires extra work to be used (not *that* much, but still)
and excludes a large number of Gentoo and Java users that could
otherwise help killing silly bugs rather quickly.

I'd love to report officially in b.g.o should any trouble arise from using
the ~arch generation-2 Java packages. Probably with solution(s)!

Cheers,
Wiktor

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