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> Perhaps this will work itself out all by itself. When Gentoo 1.2 is |
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> released and the make.profile is changed to point at the default-1.2 |
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> profile, the bleeding edgers can use that while the more conservative |
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> keep their link to 1.0 Thinking about it, this is probably the ultimate |
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> solution, its just not apparent right now since Gentoo is so young, and |
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> the only available option is to use the 1.0 profile. When there is a |
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> choice, the current version profile will be bleeding edge, while the |
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> previous version will only be updated with major fixes, and will become |
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> the "stable" release. |
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DISCLAIMER: I'm intentionally being rude... it helps convey my message. |
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*smile* I now return you to your regularly scheduled rant. |
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First and foremost, I agree with the person who stated the above %100. |
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Second, And I quote from the paragraph above, "its just not apparent right |
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now since Gentoo is so young, and the only available option is to use the 1.0 |
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profile." |
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Being so young, the documentation, the sence of community, the code (albeit |
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in this case a 1.0 is quite nice. Kudos guys!), everything about the Gentoo |
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product is NOT AS MATURE AS MORE WIDELY DISTRIBUTED DISTRIBUTIONS! What does |
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7.2 mean to you? Or 8.1? What does 1.1 mean to you? |
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I guess some people just jumped head first into Gentoo without knowing what |
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they were getting into. (The middle of a development cycle... that just |
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never ends.) |
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Now, Consider the previous statement a direct *POKE* at the people I refer to |
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as lusers. Did they read the documentation? Did the read the part about |
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profiles? Did they bother to learn about profiles so they can start fixing |
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problems themselves and submit errors to http://bugs.gentoo.org ?? Do they |
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realize these collections of code known as packages are being written by |
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people NOT DEVELOPING GENTOO (some exceptions may apply)? Do they realize |
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the ebuild scripts, emerge, ebuild, the installer, initscripts, etc are what |
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Gentoo really is? |
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Admittedly profiles aren't as 'slick' as they could be... but some people |
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just need a reality check. [end of luser rant] |
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When you thinking about the 'Subject: ' field of this thread... How many |
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users are capable of being an effective Gentoo user? Who is the Gentoo |
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distributions target audience? Now if you consider the number of people in |
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that target audience vs the number of people who jumped head first into |
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Gentoo without knowing what they were getting into... %95 seems to me to be |
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about the right ratio. Admittedly I'm just guessing. |
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If you want to make those users falling into the middle of a never-ending |
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development cycle due to ignorance, the depenancy issue (aka DLL Hell) must |
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be able to be presented to lusers in a manner that lusers can deal with. |
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Preaching patience to those users will not get them to shut up. [end of |
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developer rant] |
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With all that being said... let the flames begin! |
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