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