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On Saturday 31 March 2007, Andrej Kacian wrote: |
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> "Christopher Covington" <covracer@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > The first condition you list is a sort of nativism that I for one |
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> > would expect not to find in a successful copyleft project created on |
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> > the Internet. Why should the code Gentoo uses be written by Gentoo |
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> > developers? Nobody seems to have a problem with using someone else's C |
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> > compiler and installation tools (gcc, autoconf, automake). Resistance |
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> > to a package manager on the grounds that, "It wasn't originally |
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> > written by us!" could perhaps push technical arguments that actually |
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> > matter into the background. |
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> It seems to me that this is just vapier's way of saying "I don't want |
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> ciaranm anywhere near an official package manager". |
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i'm glad i have people to tell me what i mean when i say things ... now i can |
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focus on merely spouting fourth english language constructs and let other |
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people interpret them. i do believe i just became an oracle. phear. |
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-mike |
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