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Just butting in here a bit but this discussion has got me somewhat |
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worried. This will probably ramble a bit... but at least that will |
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fit right in in this discussion... hehe. |
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I probably represent about the lowest level of gentoo user so I |
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thought maybe it would be good to speak up a bit here. |
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Its hard to get a handle on what you all are really talking about. I |
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mean the behind the scenes build up that must have gone on was totally |
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invisible to people like me. |
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I started hearing and seeing comments and such on this list about 1 or |
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maybe 2 mnths ago now, indicating some underlying trouble but I'm not |
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getting a clear picture here of what that trouble is. |
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I am a long time linux user and have used gentoo for probably 3 yrs or |
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so. I've never contributed a single bit of code or contributed in any |
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other way than asking lots of question here... and answering a few I |
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guess but the ratio wouldn't look so good for me. I've added a |
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very small number of bug reports at one time or another. |
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I like gentoo a lot... and have finally gotten at least slightly |
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competent in using/installing/trouble shooting and etc.... I'd hate to |
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switch to something else. |
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The complex setup of use flags and profiles is very versatile and |
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eventually people like me start to catch on. With the counter balance |
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of the various /etc/portage/package.** files, there are infinite ways |
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to control ones setup. |
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>From this discussion I am unable to get an idea what might be coming |
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in the next few mnths. |
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I'd like to help in some way... but hard to think of anyway that I |
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could realistically contribute. |
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I've used linux pretty exclusively as my main desktop since mid to |
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late 90s, experimented with freebsd and openbsd a bit. |
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The gentoo community... at least the discussion lists is about the |
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best I've been involved in. |
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I guess what I'm getting at here is wondering what the collection of |
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lowlevel users can really do to help the apparent breakdown of |
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direction. |
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I can write basic perl and shell script a bit. But so basic as to |
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seem pretty useless compared to the kind of talent available here. |
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I guess I feel kind of helpless about the possibility of gentoo |
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breaking down and kind of fading on off into oblivion. |
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Can some of you `in the know' folks layout what the problems seem to |
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be especially some concrete ways interested parties could have some |
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impact on the situation. |
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