On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 09:45:01 +1300 Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | may i politely ask why it is included in the portage tree at all? is | this a way is distributing to developers? I thought that was what cvs | was for? or is cvs just for the tools actually developed by gentoo | devs (eg gentoolkit) as opposed to the ebuilds themselves?
It's mostly so that the relevant people (some Gentoo developers and a few friendly xorg people) can do appropriate testing and patch creation. Despite what the original poster might suggest, that ebuild isn't totally broken -- it's enough for us to try to get xaa fixed, at least... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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