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From: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:21:45
Message-Id: 4425C171.2010307@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal? by Carsten Lohrke
1 Carsten Lohrke wrote:
2 > On Saturday 25 March 2006 19:50, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
3 >> This is the same line of thinking that makes people use flash or wmv
4 >> "because it's the silly Linux users that has to adapt, Windows works fine"
5 >> and similar.
6 >
7 > It's not. Darcs is not proprietary, so you can make it work if you want/need
8 > it. And it's up to those who use a specific platform to make it flourish, but
9 > holding us back to use something because of some specific platform having not
10 > enough developers/users/steam to follow would be entirely stupid.
11
12 Actually, you are incorrent, and apparently haven't listened to at least
13 a couple of emails from dcoutts. At this time, ghc is totally
14 unfeasable on mips, and therefore so is Darcs. There is no reason to
15 screw over one arch when there are other VCS implementations which will
16 work.
17
18 -Steve
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