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On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 23:30:07 +0800 |
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Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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> > So you think Gentoo should advertise as "the chances of it working |
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> > are greater than 0%"? |
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> I said better ... not repetitive trolls. |
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> If you cared about making things better you'd spend more time writing |
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> patches and less time trying to pick fights on public mailinglists :) |
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> But I guess small minds, small pleasures ... |
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What Gentoo needs is less immediate writing of patches and more careful |
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thinking about how a complex mess of sort-of working, poorly |
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interacting features can be unified into a smaller number of correct, |
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coherent concepts. Right now most of the patches are fixing screwups in |
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earlier patches that were caused by implementing the wrong thing (and |
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often introducing new problems along the way). |
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The fact that you have code that does something does not automatically |
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imply that doing it is a good idea. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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