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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: maintainer-needed@ packages need you!
Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:16:09
Message-Id: 5403BAAE.5060501@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: maintainer-needed@ packages need you! by Patrick Lauer
1 Patrick Lauer:
2 > On Sunday 31 August 2014 11:39:22 hasufell wrote:
3 >> Martin Vaeth:
4 >>> hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
5 >>>> On 08/30/2014 02:35 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote:
6 >>>>> For net-im/skype,
7 >>>>
8 >>>> Screw skype.
9 >>>
10 >>> Please don't. Not all communication partners are linux users.
11 >>
12 >> Tox is multiplatform.
13 >>
14 >>>> We have tox [1] on the way.
15 >>>
16 >>> This is far from being ready, especially for non-specialists.
17 >>> It is not even foreseeable whether the Android client will ever
18 >>> be able to do at least audio. (So far, I was not even able to
19 >>> exchange any messages at all. It may be my mistakes, but
20 >>> if I am not able to do it, how could I expect this from casual
21 >>> computer users?)
22 >>
23 >> This has nothing to do with specialists. Tox is configuration-free.
24 >>
25 >> And sure, it's pre-alpha as indicated in my previous mail.
26 >
27 > So it doesn't work,
28
29 Wrong, it already works for a lot of people.
30
31 > but you feel the need to feel superior by telling everyone
32 > else that they are doing it wrong.
33 >
34
35 The fuq?
36
37
38 I felt the need to tell people about an upcoming alternative for skype.
39 If you have a problem with that... troll somewhere else.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: maintainer-needed@ packages need you! "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>