Well, you can expect the arch teams to run an emerge kde-meta for the masked ebuilds and atleast report bugs, no?
Don't know about the other arches, but not the mips team.
Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but you apply the patches when you extract the source. If exactly the same source package is extracted and same patches are applied, where would the problem be? -- In all other cases, it will only be a matter of saying, here, we made this patch for the kdebase source (which doesnt make a difference if its on portage on not), and it will be the job of the KDE team to add it to the split ebuilds which I'm sure they'll happily do. Am I completely off here?
You are completely missing the point. The issue is we don't have the time or resources to make sure that many individual ebuilds work on our arch, and that it will vastly increase the time it takes for our users to install/uninstall everything.
Steve
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