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Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> posted |
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200701041152.04572.bo.andresen@××××.dk, excerpted below, on Thu, 04 Jan |
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2007 11:52:00 +0100: |
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> On Thursday 04 January 2007 09:08, Duncan wrote: |
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>> > "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the |
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>> > vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best |
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>> > for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran |
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>> > McCreesh |
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>> This seems to be a popular quote around the Gentoo lists. I'd like to |
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>> know the context. |
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> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/154604/focus=154953 |
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> For the record I agree(d) with Ciaran on this point. |
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Again, thank you very much. Good old Ciaran, absolutely forthright if a |
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bit controversial, but now that I know the context, I agree, within the |
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context, as well. I overule keywords and masking often enough myself, but |
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I greatly appreciate the hard work Gentoo devs (and testers) put into the |
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entire framework, so I can pick and choose what I want to overrule, and |
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remain relatively confident about the reasonableness of the defaults for |
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everything else. |
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FWIW, that thread is getting bookmarked. =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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