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2010-04-20 07:14:57 Kai Dietrich |
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> On Tuesday 20 April 2010 Ed W <lists@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I guess I concede the ebuilds are useful, but I would kind of expect |
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> > most people on this list to be well within the capability to build their |
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> > own kernel, |
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> Well, I can just speak for me. It's not that I'm not able to do it, it's |
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> just that I don't want to spend my precious time on patching kernels and |
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> figuring out how to solve the occasional conflicting patch. |
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> That's basically the point of using a distro, otherwise I could use LSF. |
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+1, I quit devving quite some time ago because I got tired of it (and still |
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haven't fully recovered) and I've never been a c/c++ dev. |
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The gentoo devs pretty much save my life every day with their work, I just |
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want to take care of my servers (and lusers :/) and will donate rather than |
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start applying non trivial patches to a big package like the kernel. |
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