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On Tuesday 16 May 2006 21:35, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: |
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> Sorry if i am confusing things here, but isn't this just _yet_ another |
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> profile that |
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> the user can choose to use? |
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A profile in the tree has to be supported by someone. |
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It's also more likely that people would try it out without knowing what they |
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are going to open. |
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An overlay makes users more conscious that they are going to require manual |
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work and they have to know where to look for support. If it's in portage, |
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it's more likely that users won't look at it deeply and just think that "it's |
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portage, so goes to gentoo bugzilla". |
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Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò - http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/ |
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Gentoo/Alt lead, Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, AMD64, Sound, PAM, KDE |
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