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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 07:45:34
Message-Id: 20060125074116.0d3e5ec6@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X by Donnie Berkholz
1 On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:34:49 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
2 <spyderous@g.o> wrote:
3 | Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 | > On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:16:38 -0800 Donnie Berkholz
5 | > | I guarantee you that adding all of modular X to the virtual/x11
6 | > | will make this drag out for years, and THAT is unacceptable to me.
7 | >
8 | > Why must it drag out for years? There's no difference in the speed
9 | > of porting between the solutions. The only difference is the impact
10 | > upon end users.
11 |
12 | And impact creates motivation. If it isn't literally broken, 95% of
13 | devs just have better things to do than fix it.
14
15 This does not give you the right to deliberately break things for our
16 users.
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium)
20 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
21 Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking modular X Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>