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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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>On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 19:55 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote: |
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>>Also I find it amusing when people say that Gentoo exists for the |
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>>users. I think that is wrong. Gentoo exists for the *developers*. |
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>This is the reason why *I* use/develop Gentoo. I love it. I could care |
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>less if every single user we have drops us for Ubuntu. I would still |
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>develop Gentoo so long as it is still fun. |
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You might reconsider this statement. |
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Suppose the entire user base will migrate to Ubuntu. The direct |
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consequence will be that the active dev corpus will grow thin, which |
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will lead to a dramatic decrease of distro's merits. |
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The dev and user communities are very close tighted together, but if |
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analyze who needs whom, you'll realize that dev community depends on |
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user community, not the other way around. No dev is irreplaceable, as |
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long as we have our cluefull user base in place. |
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Not every gentoo dev has a selfish motivation (at least not as selfish |
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as "having fun" or "being cool" motivations). For example, my reason to |
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becoming dev was to maintain unpopular (in dev world, of course) |
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packages and keep b.g.o as clean as I could. I ended up taking care of |
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100+ ebuilds, from which only 2 (ppp and squid) interests me as a person. |
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