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From: Stephen Bennett <spb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: New category proposal
Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 17:38:17
Message-Id: 1115747094.24940.11.camel@localhost
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: New category proposal by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 10:25 -0700, Duncan wrote:
2 > Well, the latter anyway shouldn't be a big issue. That's what Gentoo
3 > ships patched kernels for, right? ... And as for not stable on various
4 > archs, that's what open source is for, right?
5
6 What's what open source is for? Spending your time fixing other people's
7 broken code so that it works on your arch, when there's a rock-solid
8 alternative that already works better and has done for years? As for
9 proper xattrs, it's another of those cases where it's not worth fixing
10 reiser when ext3 (or xfs, of course) works perfectly well.
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