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On 03/31/12 23:38, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:30:07 +0800 |
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> Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> So you think Gentoo should advertise as "the chances of it working |
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>>> are greater than 0%"? |
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>> I said better ... not repetitive trolls. |
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>> If you cared about making things better you'd spend more time writing |
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>> patches and less time trying to pick fights on public mailinglists :) |
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>> But I guess small minds, small pleasures ... |
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> What Gentoo needs is less immediate writing of patches and more careful |
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> thinking about how a complex mess of sort-of working, poorly |
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> interacting features can be unified into a smaller number of correct, |
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> coherent concepts. Right now most of the patches are fixing screwups in |
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> earlier patches that were caused by implementing the wrong thing (and |
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> often introducing new problems along the way). |
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> The fact that you have code that does something does not automatically |
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> imply that doing it is a good idea. |
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... and now we train not sending private messages to public mailing |
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lists again, mmmhkay? After so many years you still accidentally do such |
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things on purpose. Not cool. |