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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 08:05:53
Message-Id: 43D730AB.5060002@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:34:49 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
3 > <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
4 > | Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > | > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:16:38 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
6 > | > | I guarantee you that adding all of modular X to the virtual/x11
7 > | > | will make this drag out for years, and THAT is unacceptable to me.
8 > | >
9 > | > Why must it drag out for years? There's no difference in the speed
10 > | > of porting between the solutions. The only difference is the impact
11 > | > upon end users.
12 > |
13 > | And impact creates motivation. If it isn't literally broken, 95% of
14 > | devs just have better things to do than fix it.
15 >
16 > This does not give you the right to deliberately break things for our
17 > users.
18
19 I disagree, for ~arch users. But it seems we've hit upon a different
20 solution elsewhere in the thread, so there's no point in continuing this.
21
22 Thanks,
23 Donnie

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