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From: Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Bash vs. Python Rule files
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 23:48:45
Message-Id: 200308140048.38698.aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Bash vs. Python Rule files by Heinrich Wendel
1 On Wednesday 13 Aug 2003 23:17, Heinrich Wendel wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 13 August 2003 23:55, Peter Ruskin wrote:
3 > > Can you reassure me that this stuff is going to be optional?
4 > >
5 > > I run KDE and I have no use for another menu system. This seems to
6 > > me to be a bad waste of developer resources.
7 >
8 > If it is a waste of developer resources, tell me why there is at
9 > least one thread every month about such a system in forums, and why
10 > every distro (meaning debian, suse, mandrake, redhat ...) has such a
11 > system?
12 >
13 There's no good reason for following those distros. I came here from
14 Mandrake and its awful menu implementation was always the first thing I
15 disabled.
16
17 Hell, it sounds like I'm flaming here - as long as I can opt out of it I
18 don't really mind what you do - but from my viewpoint it ought not to
19 to be too much of a drain on resources.
20
21 Peter
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Menu - Bash vs. Python Rule files Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>