Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

[Fernando J. Pereda]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 01:14:46AM +0800, Zhang Le wrote:
> Fernando J. Pereda wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:58:28PM +0800, Zhang Le wrote:
> >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:09:27 +0800
> >>> Zhang Le <r0bertz@g.o> wrote:
> >>>> IMHO, what is more ridiculous is keeping ask other to be quiet in a
> >>>> discussion which is supposed to be open to everyone who cares about
> >>>> it.
> >>> It's open to anyone who cares about it and is knowledgeable enough to
> >>> provide informed commentary. Anything else is just noise.
> >> At least not to tell others to be quiet.
> >> It is a discussion after all.
> >> We can let them become knowledgeable, at least we should try.
> >
> > Heh... unfortunately this is gentoo and this behaviour is tolerated. Try
> > to go with this same thing to the lkml[*1*]. Ask them to teach you C so
> > you can contribute with your opinion to every single patch and design
> > decision that is made. Then tell them they should teach you stuff about
> > OS design because you _are_entitled_ an opinion, then .... [then, sane
> > people see how this approach gets silly]
>
> I have mailed my patch to LKML. So I know the situation there.
> Linux kernel community has a kernelnewbie mailing list. But we don't have one.
> We don't even have enough docs to educate our future potential package manager
>   maintainer. Note I am not blaming anyone there.
> Let's start from ourselves.

Their docs are usually the source. Source that you still haven't studied
and keep moaning because we don't want to explain the process as if this
were primary school.

Go and read the source, study and understand it.

- ferdy

-- 
Fernando J. Pereda Garcimartín
20BB BDC3 761A 4781 E6ED  ED0B 0A48 5B0C 60BD 28D4