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On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:42:51 +0100 |
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Mike Auty <ikelos@g.o> wrote: |
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> And yet still you keep fighting? Why? |
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Because unlike pretty much everyone else around here, I haven't given |
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up on Gentoo. I still think it can have a future. |
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> What do you *need* from Gentoo that you can't get for yourself? |
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I don't need Gentoo. I do, however, think it would be a shame for all |
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the work I've put into it over the years to go to waste. |
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> There's a neat little project called Exherbo you might have heard of. |
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> It's trying to build up most of those things, and they don't put up |
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> with incompetent, unknowledgeable people, so I'm sure they'll let you |
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> in, and I'm sure you'll be happy there. |
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*yawn* |
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http://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/paludis-gentoo-and-exherbo/ |
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> I'm quite happy to continue working in a friendly helpful environment, |
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> where simple questions are most often met with patient answers and |
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> people are given the chance to learn, improve and help out where they |
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> can. I'm happy to keep quietly maintaining my ebuilds and let the |
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> people whose packages I package come up with the new stuff. You don't |
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> seem to be, so perhaps this isn't the right place for you to |
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> contribute? ~ If you do want to contribute, perhaps you could |
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> consider the environment you're working in, and be more accommodating |
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> to it rather than fighting against it? |
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The environment is a large part of Gentoo's problem. The focus needs |
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to be taken away from the 'community' (where community means a bunch of |
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Ubuntu users who make lots of noise on the forums) and put back into |
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delivering a decent distribution. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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