On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:19:14 -0400 Luis Francisco Araujo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the developers could let all these three points at the hands of the > user wanting to get the ebuild included into the tree. [...] > The user has to compromise to take care of those previous commented > three points that some of us might be afraid of, besides of giving
Oh, if I can speak for me as a user I'll not like it. One of the major advantage of Gentoo is easy maintenace (not mindless, but easy if you know what you are doing) thanks to portage system. Another is availability of large number of software in distribution. These two together gives easily maintanable operating system - because of portage and because I do not need to maintain lot of packages by myself. If I have some application that is not included in portage why I decide to make an ebuild? Because I hope that then it will be accepted and included to portage, so maintained by developers (big thanks for this). If I have to take care of package + ebuild + dependencies, I'll rather choose not to make an ebulid but compile package right from .tar.gz archive. Sorry for being such a bad user. But I'm pretty busy mostly so I'm glad If I find time to make an initial ebuild and submit. In that case, I see no problem to submit right to bugzilla and dicuss/fix/test the ebuild there. I would agree with your points of user responsibilty to solve bugs, dependencies and so on, but only until package is accepted and included to portage. Robert -- Robert Cernansky E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
