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Joe Peterson <lavajoe@g.o> posted 48BAECC2.80403@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:10:58 -0600: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> Users don't need to see it. |
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> I cannot quite agree on that point. Given that Gentoo is a distro that |
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> appeals to the more technically-oriented users, I personally believe |
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> that what we expose as ebuild syntax is actually exposed to many users |
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> fairly profoundly. |
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Indeed. Ciaran himself is a user, now, tho a dev for other projects. Of |
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course, I'm a user too. Both of us care (tho I'm sure he cares more than |
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I do) about virtual and need to see it, |
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But I think less technical user (even "luser" in some cases) is how he |
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tends to use the word. The are certainly there, but that has never |
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really been Gentoo's focus, and we don't expect users to need their hands |
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held. |
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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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