On 6/1/08, Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:41:28 +0200 > > Raúl Porcel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > IMHO the packages should be keyworded if an arch team member or an > > > user of that arch requests it. Keywording something if an user of > > > said arch doesn't request it, is a waste of resources. > > > > > > > How is making things available to your users a waste of resources? > > Anyways, if you're so far behind that you don't think you can manage > > keywording another package then just say so and deny the request. > > > > > > ++ > > I'd like to comment that in theory a package maintainer should have a > decent idea of what archs a particular package should work on. I can't > imagine that the vmware maintainers are going to be sending keyword requests > to the sparc team...
Contrary to your theory I think in the past this has proven to be false; however I am not sure how often this was the case (eg. were just a few maintainers overzeallous or did we have widespread problems.) > > -- > gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
