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Dale posted on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:06:06 -0600 as excerpted: |
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> I am subscribed to -user as well. I been using Gentoo since the 1.4 |
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> days. This is about improving portage which is a good thing to talk |
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> about here. The devs do it, not the user. ;-) Also, I already know |
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> how to use portage pretty good. I'm not asking for support just trying |
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> to improve things. |
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Do note that there's a portage-specific list as well. IDR what the name |
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is but on gmane (where I follow it) it's the |
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gmane.linux.gentoo.portage.devel newsgroup. It's not a user list either, |
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but they're reasonably friendly and it wouldn't be bothering the non- |
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portage devs that way. |
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As for this, I say let it be (except for possibly making -C output a |
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bigger warning in general). The documentation is pretty clear, and Gentoo |
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never has been about hand-holding. If a user can't read the documentation |
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and thus asks to screw themselves, Gentoo provides the tools to do it -- |
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and they're POWER tools, too! =:^) I don't see that changing and don't |
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believe it should. There's other distributions out there for users who |
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want or need a namby-pamby baby-sat hand-held version. Gentoo is not and |
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never has been the right choice for them, and I don't believe we should be |
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trying to make it so. (That said, a warning on -C similar to that on -c, |
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might be wise, but that's an implementation detail the discussion of which |
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doesn't belong here.) |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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