From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QwIVU-0003XB-MD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:48:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44CBA21C1FD; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C12221C1FD for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:48:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (mayo-nat4.mayo.edu [129.176.197.23]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dberkholz) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 690631B4019 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:48:45 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:48:43 -0500 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Gentoo Anaconda Final Report Message-ID: <20110824184843.GC5482@comet.mayo.edu> References: <20110824041655.GE14902@comet.mayo.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KN5l+BnMqAQyZLvT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 13e3a5c2810116e700d9a5abef68bcca --KN5l+BnMqAQyZLvT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12:07 Wed 24 Aug , wiktor w brodlo wrote: > On 24 August 2011 04:16, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > > On 23:00 Mon 22 Aug =A0 =A0 , wiktor w brodlo wrote: > >> I will also continue my never-ending quest of slimming Anaconda down > >> as there's still a lot of dead/useless code in the tree (but figuring > >> out what can go and what should stay is a task on its own). > > > > Wiktor, > > > > lxnay was kind enough to point out that removing "dead" code will make > > it extremely hard to rebase your work upon upstream changes. How do you > > propose to deal with that? >=20 > Maybe not *extremely* hard. These days Anaconda development, both in > Fedora and in Sabayon, isn't exactly lightening-fast, so I think > following their development and merging back any nice changes > systematically won't take up too much time. I always thought that I'd > just keep their respective git repos locally and if there are any > changes, look at what they do and determine if they're of any use to > Gentoo. This way, only the changes done to the files that we also have > will be merged back in, and then only if they affect our installer - > for example, yum, Fedora repos, Entropy (Sabayon's package manager) > etc support is totally unneeded in Gentoo so there's no point even > bothering ourselves with changes to those parts, so I don't see any > point in keeping this code. You think manually inspecting all commits is worth it? Seems like `git=20 pull --rebase` would be a lot easier. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Admin, Summer of Code Gentoo Linux and X.Org Blog: http://dberkholz.com --KN5l+BnMqAQyZLvT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk5VR4sACgkQXVaO67S1rtuwDwCfUiwDicJf1jjoJqDtVzkRrywh WJwAoMu6OsqqotlwRzpNlr17BXYvel3+ =gRY1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KN5l+BnMqAQyZLvT--