Re: [gentoo-dev] Is anyone a prude?

[Simon Stelling]

Hi,

znmeb@×××××××.net wrote:
> Well ... someone's gotta step in and say "No!", so I will. I've just witnessed
> and participated in a semi-debate on the value of devoting effort to
> Gentoo/CygWin. If Gentoo/CygWin isn't worth the effort to maintain, why on
> Earth are the developers wasting time on maintaining a package that does
> absolutely nothing but *syntax coloring* in a *single* editor for a language
> with a questionable name that is an 8-instruction Turing complete environment
> limited to a 30 kilobyte address space?

1. Getting Gentoo/* running and stable is a vast effort compared to 
maintain such a package.
2. It's fun.

> Does Gentoo support the free APL derivative A Plus? How's that Axiom package
> coming along? How about ebuilds for Common Lisp Music and Common Music
> Notation? The x86-64 arch work -- that's all done, right? The GLSA integration
> with Portage?

We're not here to give you your dream system, we're here to have fun (at 
least i hope so). Would you install an IRC server on a notebook and use 
it to chat in a train where all people are less than 3 meters from each 
other? It doesn't make any sense at all, but I can tell you, it's fun.

1. You can't force people to do what you want other than you pay them.
2. We're not one big dev-team, everyone has different interests. I'm 
pretty sure some people won't ever work on e.g. Gentoo/AMD64 simply 
because they don't have an amd64.

> something is easy doesn't necessarily mean it should be done. In this
> particular case, rather than ask if anyone **objects** to the package, let me
> ask "Is there a *compelling* reason why it **should** be in the Portage tree?"

Of course there is a reason: You can read your bf-programs easier.

Greetings,

blubb
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