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On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:56:04 -0500
Barry.SCHWARTZ@... wrote:
> "W.Kenworthy" <billk@...> skribis:
> > 4. Everybodies requirements are different: unless devs get feedback on
> > whats important to users, how would they know. I acknowledge that whats
> > important to devs is not neccessarily going to gel for the users, but
> > the fact that gentoo now does not have a usable desktop for a large part
> > of its user community should be a concern for all.
>
> You could likely use the upstream version rather than the Gentoo
> percolated product. That's what I do with my kernel patches, partly
> for similar reasons as what you are dealing with.
Not everyone has the time to play with source tarballs and development
utilities. That's why people use Linux distributions, instead of LFS-like
approach.
--
Andrej "Ticho" Kacian <ticho at gentoo dot org>
Gentoo Linux Developer - net-mail, antivirus, amd64
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