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Mateusz Mierzwinski (me.matheos.org) wrote: |
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> - No main packages updates. |
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Define "main packages". If there are packages you know to be out of |
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date, file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org |
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> - No serious Gentoo-Wiki - rewritten after great boom! |
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Yes, the loss of content on Gentoo Wiki was unfortunate. An offsite |
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backup system has now been put in place so this won't happen again on |
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the same scale. Others have scraped Google Cache for most of the old |
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content and put it up at http://gentoo-wiki.info. Many have been busy |
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working on articles on the new wiki and it is fast returning to its |
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former glory (it's even better in some respects IMO - the rewrite has |
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been an opportunity to correct some issues). |
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> |
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> - Portage blocks! - in 2005 there was no blocks, system was stable and |
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> working with max performance - now blocks are needed - WHY?! |
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Portage blockers did exist in 2005. What's more, as of portage 2.1.6, |
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most blocks are now resolved automatically. |
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> - Amd64 have oldest packages developed by devs (much don't work). |
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This is completely false. I use amd64 on most of my machines and the |
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only thing I have issues with is Flash - but that's certainly not the |
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fault of the Gentoo developers. |
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> |
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> - GLI death! People used GLI! You write OS for PPL, not for Your usage. |
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The GLI has, in my opinion, been in a poor state since its inception. It |
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has slowly gotten a bit better, but not enough. In my opinion it should |
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never have been an icon on the desktop of the livecd. It wasn't ready. |
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And for whatever reasons, progress on fixing its issues never seemed to |
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be that good. |
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Also, you'll actually find most open source developers are in it to |
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"scratch an itch". It may seem completely selfish, but it works. |
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Developers volunteer their time on projects they are interested in. You |
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can't force people to work on things they aren't interested in in their |
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free time - it'll never work. |
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I also believe there's an alternative project which is replacing the GLI |
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for what it was intended to be used for. Details of this will be in the |
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announcement when it is released. |
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> - Stupid ideas about kicking off creator of Gentoo - You using his work! |
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> That's sucks! Try to rewrite whole portage by Your own then You can kick |
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> off anyone You like! |
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No one "kicked off" Daniel Robbins - As far as I know he left of his own |
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accord. His relatively recent "return" is a long story and another issue |
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entirely. |
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> - KDE 4.1 packages updates... or should I say - none of it! Latest |
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> unstable version of KDE 4 is 4.2 version!!! |
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KDE is being worked on in overlays at the moment. Personally I don't |
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think it's ready for everyday use yet. I tried the 4.2 SVN versions |
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recently and it still had many issues. |
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> Check DistroWatch what You done with Gentoo! In 2007 Yr. Gentoo was 7-th |
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> place, and now? |
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Distrowatch ranks distros based on page views on its site. It's hardly a |
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great way to rank distros. |
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