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Since installing Gentoo I've been intending to learn enough bash to start |
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writing ebuilds, but somehow haven't managed to get around to it. I've been |
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reading gentoo-dev all that time, a couple of months now, although I've |
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rarely posted. I guess I'm an enthusiastic end-user, who has learned & |
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benefited much since first installing Gentoo. |
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With the flurry of posting over the last couple of days, I think it's a good |
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opportunity for me to say: |
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WELL DONE, ALL THE GENTOO DEVS. A DAMN GOOD JOB YOU'VE MADE OF A DISTRO. |
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Although I rarely contribute myself, I keep seeing the same topics coming up |
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here again & again: |
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How about a different front-end / GUI for Portage or installation? |
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How can we improve on the /usr/portage file tree? |
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How about better descriptions? |
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How about binaries..? |
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This doesn't work for me. How do I fix it? |
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When will 1.4 be ready? |
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With many of these questions, I can see that the helpful folks making the |
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suggestions haven't been subscribed to this list as long as I have, and I |
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can imagine it must be frustrating for the devs to have to say: "Well, we've |
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talked about that, we're working on it, just bear with us and we'll get it |
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done as soon as we can". |
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It must be a bummer for you guys when folks post "why don't we do it |
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differently", when they haven't undertaken large projects (I personally have |
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no concept of what is involved, but can only hazard a guess) and may not be |
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around in 3 months saying: "well, you remember that big suggestion I made a |
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while back... here's it is for you, the result of hours of work, ready to be |
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incorporated into the tree". |
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I personally don't give a damn when 1.4 is "released" (although I appreciate |
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others comments that it'll be a milestone for the Gentoo), and I would |
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imagine the mention of it in recent threads might be quite frustrating for |
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the devs; I can imagine that end-users asking when 1.4 will be ready is like |
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them saying "I don't care about all the hard work that you're putting into |
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this project, I'm interested in superficial stuff here". |
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And for anyone who thinks that a desktop manager like KDE or Gnome is an |
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essential part of a working Unix distribution... and that you "need" |
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binaries for anything beyond stage 3... well, *cough*... luxury!.. tch!.. |
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in my day we had to walk 3 miles in the snow, barefoot! We had to eat coal |
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for breakfast, then install Irix before class. Tch! Don't know they're born, |
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these kids with their fancy namby-pamby frambuffer logo'd bootable-CDs. |
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Anyway, I just wanted to post & say that there are some of us (I am sure |
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MANY of us) who aren't always so vocal, but who think that the Gentoo |
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development team are doing a great job. I think Gentoo is *exactly* on track |
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& focussed in the right direction. |
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Any time I see a good suggestion made here, I know that it's the sort of |
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thing that he dev team treat seriously, and which will be incorporated into |
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Gentoo, just as soon as other priorities are settled. |
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Many thanks, guys, |
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Stroller. |
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