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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    RE: [gentoo-dev] GCC 3.1/3.2
From:       "Thomas Beaudry" <tmbeaudry () msn ! com>
Date:       2002-07-29 7:28:19
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>Gentoo patches 3rd party apps for new GCC versions?
>I would have expected the original package author to
>be doing that, not people from a particular distro.

All the distros do it.  Nobody wants to wait for the
maintaner to find the time, they usually have other
work to do to put food on the table.  That's the reason
the updates happen so fast.  Among all the distros,
there's someone who has the time (and quite often is
paid to do so, e.g. Mandrake, Red Hat) to figure out
the fixes right away.  As soon as they have it figured
out, they email it to the maintaner who then usually
checks it out and merges it into the code.


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