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/

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