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On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 09:40:05PM +0100, Geert Bevin wrote: |
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> Personally I think that since we're steering towards v1.0, stability and |
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> clarity for the regular user should be an important issue. People tend |
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> to ignore warnings or disclaimers and go ahead anyway. Then when it |
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> doesn't work they either get a bad image of the distribution or they ask |
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> questions on the mailinglist or irc channel about the stuff that was |
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> essentially unsupported, taking up valuable developer's time and |
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> patience. I really think that they shouldn't get the opportunity to get |
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> access to those ebuilds unless it's clearly distributed seperately as a |
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> complete alpha (or beta) branch. Just my idea on the topic. |
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but on a default install of Gentoo Linux, can't |
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a user log in as root and type "rm -rf /" if they so choose? I understand |
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your view but don't agree with it; an explicit (and very big with lots of |
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*'s in it) warning in the package.mask is sufficient. And I'm calling |
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that my final answer, folks. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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