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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Only you can prevent broken portage trees
From:       Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm () ciaranm ! org>
Date:       2006-10-31 20:41:05
Message-ID: 20061031204105.587ddeaf () snowdrop ! home
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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:34:13 +0100 "Fernando J. Pereda"
<ferdy@gentoo.org> wrote:
| On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:23:00PM -0500, Seemant Kulleen wrote:
| > Third, the best proposal I've seen here is for developers to get
| > shell accounts on alternate architectures.  There's quite a few of
| > them floating around, and I'm pretty sure the arch teams will help
| > you get a shell on one of the boxes somewhere.  Some of the arches
| > even have shell boxes for that purpose sitting at OSU or
| > something.  This would work for at least the console applications
| > (the visual stuff will be a little trickier).
| 
| Just to add a little thing here:
| 
| Arch teams have been using vnc through ssh to test visual stuff like
| gnome, kde, xfce and their respective mothers, for years.
| 
| So testing visual stuff remotely *is* possible.

Kind of... You won't, for example, have picked up the endian bug in
urxvt by doing that.

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