On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 12:00:17 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> *yawn* such a drama queen. > > i never said "i am going to do this everyone else be damned". i did > say "i will probably do this soon". but that is why i posted to > gentoo-dev in the first place -- to get feedback from others. > > gnutls breakage: not relevant. you're causing that breakage by not > adding a simple patch that most every other package has merged. > conflating the issue to a major ABI bump is also irrelevant. > > boost breakage: if 1.50 is going to be unmasked soon, i can wait for > that. > > general breakage: we can't sit around waiting for all packages to get > fixed. if people aren't going to fix packages after being given > notice, then they get tree cleaned. not a big deal. > -mike You both (Mike and Diego) make good and valid points regarding the unmasking of glibc-2.16 and its impact on other packages (and, subsequently, users). However, the personal attacks against one another add nothing to the discussion. Resorting to ad hominem relegates the discourse to a less-than-helpful state for everyone involved. Please try to focus on the points raised by other developers and users, so that the end result is something that benefits the community and distribution as a whole. Cheers, Nathan Zachary
