Rafael, your replies are emotional and filled with bitterness. Please adhere to the standards of friendly technical discussion that we are used to on this mailing list.
Thanks, Thomas On 12:36 Sun 18 Sep 2011, Rafael Goncalves Martins wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Juan Aguado <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Do you know how much "members" the "gentoo octave" project have? > > My guess is that theres is only one or none. > > > >> Each sentence you write make this more obvious. > > Whatever you say. > > > >> 1) You DON'T need to use Github to update the package database. > >> There's a big and shiny warning on this section of the docs saying > >> that end-users don't need to read. Just do it if you want to help > >> other users. Use the --scm option of g-octave, and package.keywords to > >> unmask the scm packages you want to install. > >> 2) You DON'T need to use --sync at all, g-octave can install packages > >> from octave-forge SVN repository with the damn --scm option. > > I don't want to install the svn packages from octave-forge repository. I > > want to install the lastest stable packages from octave-forge. Which is > > something I cannot do unless I follow some instructions in the docs that, > > as an end user, I'm not supposed to read. > > > >> 3) stable releases of g-octave comes with a package database, that is > >> installed by 'emerge --config'. We do this for security reasons. The > >> live version obviously don't comes with a package database, then you > >> need the '--sync' option to get one from github. > > So I can't use the lastest stable versions of octave-packages unless I use > > the unstable and masked software and somebody manually mantains an external > > database. I can't see how this is easier for the end user. > > > > Thanks for your time, but I think is easier, faster and better for me if I > > mantain my own ebuild-based repo. > > Oh, then you think it's easier to create a ebuild-based repo from > scratch than run 2 scripts that automatically update the package > database, and send me a pull request? > > Awesome! Then go ahead please. > > -- > Rafael Goncalves Martins > Gentoo Linux developer > http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ > -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
