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Hello, |
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I've been following the Gentoo OS/X project for quite some time, but |
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I've been lagging behind in the mailing list reading process until now. |
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Just to give my 2 cents in a few sentences, it seems lots of efforts |
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have been put recently in some political discussions which unfortunatly |
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were aborted before reaching a final (constructive) decision (couldn't |
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even find some proposed drafts), that's too bad for a project which |
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seems very interesting. |
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Here is what I think about the project as an external user (take it or |
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leave it, I don't hold the Truth(TM) anyway) : |
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well... actually the thing is I'm not really a user of gentoo os/x, I |
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mean I've had portage installed virtually since the beginning of gentoo |
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os/x, but never used it, the main reason being that what I'd like to use |
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isn't working (mostly mc and kde --konqeror & kate--), and the second |
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one being that.. well, I don't even know what is actually working and so |
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worth trying. |
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I think that apart from some manpower and will to test and fix packages, |
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what could be useful is some "real (power user) use cases". I mean, it |
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would be nice to know that the project is actually useful to someone, |
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how and what it is used for, so at least simple user like me would now |
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that we could use it for that particular purpose, even if it's a niche, |
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because then, we could extend little by little the tested/working |
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software. In short, more visibility would be nice IMHO. |
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Talking about visibility, is the os/x port doc linked from somewhere on |
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the gentoo.org site? I could only find it via google, but it may be |
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because it's almort 2 in the morning. |
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Now, about KDE, has anyone made any work in trying to have a functionnal |
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version for OS/X, either with QT/Mac or (more probably) X11? Fink does |
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it (see http://ranger.befunk.com/blog/), so I guess theorically Gentoo |
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OS/X could, too. If anyone needs a tester for that... |
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Last, is osx@g.o going to someone? if not, could you look at bug |
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65748 as it's wrongly attributed to Gentoo Linux instead of Darwin/OS X. |
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Thanks to all for the efforts you put in trying to give OS X a little |
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more freedom and more choices. |
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Best regards, |
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Sylvain OBEGI |
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