Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Re: Best Desktop Patchset for kernel

On Thursday 06 October 2005 07:19, Duncan wrote:
> Jared Lindsay posted
> <e16d914c0510051454w33e6c194i691811cf5a77168@××××××××××.com>, excerpted
>
> below,  on Wed, 05 Oct 2005 14:54:38 -0700:
> > <br>
> > And I don't care a whole lot that nitro is unsupported.&nbsp; The dev I
> > asked on the issue simply said they don't want to have to provide
> > support for tons of kernel patchsets, which I agree they shouldn't have
> > to do.&nbsp;
>
> That's what I've been saying...  The devs have their own packages to worry
> about, and GKH has the kernels still there plus being the head driver guy
> on the mainline kernel, plus his SuSE stuff (his paying job), and all the
> other stuff (stable-line patchset, udev, a bunch of other single-shot
> stuff  he volunteers for) he does around the kernel, to worry about.  The
> last thing they need to worry about is a bunch of kernel guys'
> ever-changing patchsets, where they aren't judged mainline kernel worthy
> just yet.

he does not have to worry about udev anymore ;)

>
> (BTW, could you please set your client, gmail it would appear, to not emit
> HTML in posts to the list?  Gentoo doesn't seem as strict about it as many
> community lists do, but many consider HTML mail the domain of crackers and
> spammers, believing if someone has to use HTML, the real content can't be
> worth one's time to read in the first place, and therefore killfile it, as
> I do on my mail client.  The only reason I see your message here is
> because I'm reading the list as a newsgroup, on gmane, not as mail.)
>

well, he sent it as textmail and htmlmail, so everybody can choose, what 
he/she wants to see.. at least kmail says so, and displayed the text-part.
If you hadn't mentioned it - I would not have seen it...

but in this point, I am inclined to agree... html-mails are usually seen as 
awaste of bandwidth ;)
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