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Maybe I could have phrased that a little better. The message |
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I was replying to talked about not wanting it in Gentoo because |
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he dislikes it and always shuts it off in Mandrake. |
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I was just saying that that is selfish, to deny others a feature |
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just so he doesn't have to be bothered with a few minutes time |
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to get rid of it. |
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In otherwords, I was responding in the context he created. |
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Of course if a menu ebuild is implemented, it would be an op-in |
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just like every other ebuild under Gentoo. I didn't think it |
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was necessary to point out the obvious. Guess I was wrong. |
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>From: James Gibson <twistedhammer@××××××××××××.com> |
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>To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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>Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Automatic menus? |
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>Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:15:34 -0700 (PDT) |
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>I normally don't get involved in 'discussions' like this, but I will this |
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>time. I, personally, have no opinion on the menus issue, but I would like |
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>to address your comment about conviences.. |
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>I believe that a large number of people don't object so much to new |
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>features that 'go against their view', as they do to _having to turn them |
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>off!!_ You want menus? By all means, implement it, but don't make me have |
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>to turn it off if I don't like it; Make it so that if I don't like it, I |
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>just don't enable it. |
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>adding new conviences that are on by default is exactly like opt-out spam; |
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>Just say No!! |
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>--James |
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>On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Thomas Beaudry wrote: |
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> > Why?? |
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> > Because it's a nice convienence. And as you noted, |
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> > you can turn it off if you don't like it. |
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> > I get tired of people objecting against features that |
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> > go against their view when they don't have to use it. |
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> > Too many people think the Gentoo (or any of the other |
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> > distros) should be the way they want it and no other |
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> > way. If they don't want/use a feature, it's a waste |
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> > to put it in. Never mind what anybody else might like. |
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