Post ALb0dOrMAqftd6SuDQ by profoundlynerdy@mastodon.technology
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(DIR) Post #AKyjiE9pYrz4tre05Q by xgqt@fosstodon.org
2022-06-29T10:59:38Z
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#gentoo Polynomial-C has left the Gentoo team leaving a huge amount of pkgs to take care of.https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/e2a7a338041f4205a1d8bde86a30842c
(DIR) Post #AKymLkPHnEAY7aqUgS by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2022-06-29T11:29:13.410337Z
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@xgqt Barely any of the ebuilds are maintained anyway.Updates seem to take months and they don't update the licenses when they change either.
(DIR) Post #AKymguu9xOQslHNfxQ by xgqt@fosstodon.org
2022-06-29T11:33:03Z
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@Suiseiseki You are generalizing too much.Sometimes upstream breaks stuff or introduces great amount of incompatibilities, developers also have to take care of that.At the end of the day we wan to deliver a functional operating system, not like some other Linux distributions mixing bleeding edge and outdated packages and resulting in broken systems.
(DIR) Post #AKyr47J0PutLhOJw3M by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2022-06-29T12:22:03.738681Z
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@xgqt >Sometimes upstream breaks stuff or introduces great amount of incompatibilitiesSure, but from what I've seen, a lot of ebuild's just need a version bump, or a quick check of --version to determine what the license is, but that takes forever to happen.>At the end of the day we wan to deliver a functional operating system >not like some other Linux distributionsGentoo doesn't even ship the kernel, Linux doesn't out of the box, so even assuming that "Linux distributions" doesn't actually mean distributions of the kernel, Linux, Gentoo is either a GNU or BusyBox distribution that you can add Linux, or another kernel to.
(DIR) Post #ALb0dOrMAqftd6SuDQ by profoundlynerdy@mastodon.technology
2022-07-17T22:08:16Z
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@xgqt What do you mean by "Polynomial-C?"
(DIR) Post #ALb4o8CwpCE8zGw9Q0 by xgqt@fosstodon.org
2022-07-17T22:55:04Z
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@profoundlynerdy its a nick of the developer