Gentoo Archives: gentoo-nfp

From: Douglas James Dunn <djdunn.safety@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: How to improve the trustees
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:51:38
Message-Id: 200802041048.33789.djdunn.safety@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Re: How to improve the trustees by Jan Bilek
1 On Monday 04 February 2008 10:32:13 am Jan Bilek wrote:
2
3 > When I started with Gentoo my /etc/portage/package.use used to be
4 > empty. Now I have a lot of ~x86s (and I have never had any trouble
5 > with them - do all of them need to be ~ed?). Obviously I am not the
6 > only one - unfortunately the discussions I have read about it are not
7 > in English but I can tell you I seem to have observed some kind of a
8 > trend: users leaving Gentoo and choosing Arch - some of them
9 > explicitly stated that it was because of too many ~archs they needed:
10 > (Czech)http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/atom/2005/6/proc-jsem-presel-z-gentoo-n
11 >a-arch - Why I left Gentoo and chose Arch. For those who understand Czech
12 > and are interested in fiery discussions - see also:
13 > http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/idea/2008/1/gentoo-nam-umira-mozna-jenom-troch
14 >u-hnije.-co-ted
15 > http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/jkt/2008/1/re-gentoo-nam-umira-mozna-jenom-tro
16 >chu-hnije.-co-ted
17 > http://www.abclinuxu.cz/blog/idea/2008/1/hleda-se-nahrada-za-gentoo-second-
18 >round - you can see many users claiming they left Gentoo and have chosen
19 > Arch. I am not saying it means anything about Gentoo - but I think it's
20 > good to know about it.
21 This kind of thing happens all the time there are probably 100s of threads of
22 people telling the board why they are leaving and where they are going.
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