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George Prowse posted on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:53:31 +0000 as excerpted: |
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> On 26/03/2010 17:43, Dale wrote: |
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>> It's not faith, its reality. There will be some people that don't |
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>> subscribe to this list that will do what is above. This IS the reason I |
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>> subscribed to this list. I wanted to know what the devs were doing |
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>> under the hood that would lead me to screw up my system. It's amazing |
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>> how much fewer problems I have had since I started watching this list. |
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>> Also, if python3 is marked as "stable," people will assume it is safe |
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>> to switch to. That's what "stable" means. |
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> It's Gentoo and naturally users are like magpies, they like everything |
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> newest, highest and shiniest. |
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Hmm... looking closely, I think it's myself I see in that mirror! =:^) |
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Pretty apt description, I think, tho I don't suppose it's entirely |
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accurate for stale users or they'd find it just that. I certainly do. |
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Take baselayout-2/openrc for instance; /how/ many years stale is |
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baselayout-1 now? |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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