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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked
Date: Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:44:29
Message-Id: 20100109194412.256314be@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked by Dale
1 On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:39:58 -0600, Dale wrote:
2
3 > > No, it was the decision Red Hat made before they sold distros with X
4 > > year support contracts, to provide a guaranteed level of support to
5 > > their customers. Someone mentioned that 62% of KDE devs are unpaid,
6 > > who do you think pays the other 38%.
7 > >
8 >
9 > So they did make the decision to continue support for KDE 3. OK. So
10 > what? I wish them the best of luck. KDE still stopped the support.
11 > Anything else you say will not change that fact. Again, Redhat is only
12 > picking it up because KDE isn't doing it. That's what you just said.
13
14 It's not what I said. Red Hat commit to support all software they supply,
15 irrespective of upstream decisions. It is reasonable to assume that the
16 distros that employ and pay KDE developers are happy with the way things
17 are going, otherwise they would discontinue their support.
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21 Neil Bothwick
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23 What did the first man to discover you can get milk from cows think he
24 was doing? - anon.

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