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On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 12:02:03 -0700 |
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George Shapovalov <george@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Friday 25 April 2003 08:10, Peter Fein wrote: |
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<much liberal snipping> |
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> Lets see: Joe User wants to see what's available in this "freaky" stuff he |
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> heard so much about on some topic. I can imagine him going like that: |
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> "Oh, there was some noise recently on creating that freaky-branch, should be |
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This made me smile ^^^^^^^^^^^^^. |
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> cool to see what's in there. What? Its like 1000+ ebuilds there, how am I |
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> going to make sence of it ever. Did these guys set-up a search engine yet? |
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I feel this way about the regular tree sometimes, let alone with a possible |
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forest. |
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> As you can see I have strong feelings about this type of branching, I hope |
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> this serves as an explanation. I apologise to anybody who thinks I was too |
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> harsh in this comment. |
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> So, what instead? Can I point you and everybody interested in the direction of |
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> #1523 again ;)? |
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I just reread it and it made sense this time. ;) It's a much better solution. |
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> On a final note I just want to solicit some patience and faith in developers. |
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> We do acknowledge the problem and we are trying to address it. Don't forget |
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> that we are talking about core infrastructure changes here and it always |
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> takes time, especially if we want to stay alive during them :). |
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Sorry if I was overeager - I'm quite appreciative of the work y'all do. Please |
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stay alive. ;) |
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> Post final note :). As always, discussion and contributions in other forms are |
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> wellcome! |
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My carrier pigeon will be departing shortly. ;) Happy Friday! |
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Peter Fein |
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pfein@×××××.com |
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773-575-0694 |
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