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From: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:48:32
Message-Id: CAFWqQMQpKQ_j+NbRsdUVJ48usNvG-o7ed69SCBLY0vAd1yRkkA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits by hasufell
1 On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:31 PM, hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
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5 > On 06/11/2012 07:08 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
6 >> No, your goal is to provide a distribution. Gentoo has repeatedly
7 >> shot itself in the foot, leg, groin etc by favouring short-term
8 >> hacks over a well thought out, validated, self-enforcing design.
9 >> Right now nearly all of the package manager work is on paying off
10 >> previously incurred technical debt, and in the mean time you're
11 >> busy adding to it.
12 >>
13 >
14 > Please take your exherbo trolling somewhere else.
15 >
16 > Our goal is not to provide a distribution, because gentoo sees itself
17 > as a metadistribution.
18 >
19 > Please familiarize yourself with:
20 > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml
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22 Let's keep the discussions on this mailing list technical and not personal.
23
24 Thanks.
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26 Doug Goldstein