From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Sun Jan 10 21:38:42 2010 Message-ID: <4B4A8ECA.8030405@atari-source.org> Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:36:58 -0500 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miro Kropacek CC: mint Subject: Re: [MiNT] Sparemint Rebuild Progress References: <4B496B3F.2090306@atari-source.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 1/10/10 6:00 PM, Miro Kropacek wrote: > Mark, > > I agree with all your plans/changes but I'd suggest one thing -- it > seems you're trying to achieve gcc4 compatibility and possibility of > rebuilding every src rpm to have up-to-date compilable packages. I > think it would be good idea to cooperate with Alan and his Gentoo > work/plan, there's no point to have TWO distros (one sparemint, slowly > becoming updated with newer RPMs and Alan's new gentoo packages), > we're way too small community to use / support two different > distros... I mention this because it seems Alan is further (from the > up-to-date point of view) than you/sparemint in general. Do you propose abandoning sparemint then? I don't see any other way. If Alan's patches are available, I will make use of them. It's fairly easy to translate information from gentoo ebuilds to rpm spec files and vice versa. It is in this way that we can cooperate and use each other's work. Thanks, Mark