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On Fri, 2004-03-12 at 19:37 +0000, James William Dumay wrote: |
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> Dams (& Friends), |
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> This is the kind of thing we want to work on. It would be nice to get |
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> Gentoos blessing with the project. foser, this isnt a replacement of the |
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> vanilla gentoo/gnome desktop, its just an overlaying bunch of ebuilds |
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> that will make the existing system a little more polished for the |
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> desktop users (and people doing rollouts in organisations). |
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I know what it is and i've gone over this before why i think it is a bad |
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idea, I'm not going to repeat myself. Actually, the intial proposal mail |
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in my opinion already lacks so much insight I can't take it very |
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seriously. |
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I wonder why everyone is so enchanted by these kind of mails. There are |
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so many rough spots in Gentoo and the gnome specific parts of it and |
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they never get much non-dev attention. It seems like it all needs to be |
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some high profile project to get any volunteers, that's really the thing |
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that bothers me here. |
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The building is as strong as it's base. What I miss most in the bmg |
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attitude is the will to actually improve Gentoo the distro, it's all |
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about the coolness factor and little about what needs to be done to get |
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it right. And no, that isn't always the job that gets much attention. |
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- foser |