On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:26:56 -0800 Brian Harring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | Seriously? Without an implementation, your spec of what should | > | happen will have loads of errors? | > | > Yes. It will describe what people think is allowed, rather than what | > really is. | | If you're writing the spec to match what "people think", why limit | the # of folks involved?
You're reading that backwards. | > b) they're more interested in replacing | > the ebuild format | | Pure and absolute FUD; recall which project has added incompatible | version extensions Which are optional | which is dropping running *rm when reinstalling the same ver We haven't done that in trunk/ for a while now. | which *still* doesn't actually implement overlay logic, Sure we do. | leading to overlay authors having to copy master files into each | overlay branch. Uh, no. | Doing it formally, I hereby request access to PMS specifically with | the intention of going over it to spot where it differs from long | standing portage behaviour. And as you know all too well, given your behaviour on every previous discussion we've had related to this, you're not getting it. | > | a portage dev such as zmedico | > | > We have a Portage dev reviewing it. | | Which, if I may ask? (vague specifics help no one). Zmedico, | indicated above isn't (although perhaps you're just being coy, and he | is). Genone isn't ever around, bit hard for him to be doing it. | Stubbs is mia, kito/exg are both MIA afaik (additionally, prefix | specific although both have a pretty good understanding of env | requirements due to changing it for the prefix experiment- same goes | for grobian despite not being an official portage monkey). | | That leaves spanky, and antarus, who you specifically contradict | within the email. | | So... which? Genone. | > > and Gianelloni for the infrastructure. | > | > And what on earth do infrastructure have to do with a package | > manager specification? | | Wolf31o2 (chris) is releng moreso; one of the few folks doing | non-trivial things with the profiles pretty much, with long term | experience doing so. | | In that regard, he's one of a few handful of people who basically | could be considered profile experts- further, he's a catalyst monkey, | which at least currently, is the stage building method. Which I know fine well, and which has no relevance to what I said. | For example, dismissing Chris when he's effectively the "profiles | guy". Granted, can involve him afterwards, but don't much see the | point in *not* doing it up front. Just where did I dismiss Chris? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org Web : http://ciaranm.org/ Paludis, the secure package manager : http://paludis.pioto.org/
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