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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage...
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:38:22
Message-Id: 200809150038.18228.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage... by David Leverton
1 On Sunday 14 September 2008, David Leverton wrote:
2 > On Sunday 14 September 2008 22:38:42 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > yeah, sure. But no. Not lies. Or why were this guys forcefully retired?
4 > > For their behaviour.
5 >
6 > No, to prevent Gentoo from losing a major sponsor.
7 >
8 > > Also:
9 > > http://r0bertz.blogspot.com/2007/01/be-careful-when-you-are-on-paludis.ht
10 > >ml
11 >
12 > Idiot does something idiotic and is called "idiot". Film at 11.
13
14 he asked for a feature. Nothing else. Oh, wait, that is r0bertz - a fellow
15 dev!
16
17 >
18 > > > > and that was an official api? Yes? No?
19 > > >
20 > > > Irrelevant.
21 > >
22 > > no, not irrelevant but the beef of the story.
23 >
24 > So your bureaucratic little rules about what's "official" and what isn't
25 > are more important than what's actually useful?
26
27 lets see - an overlay is setup to develop and test ebuilds for KDE4 that
28 should some day go into the tree.
29
30 Deciding to use a feature that the official pm does not provide - and only one
31 of the three makes the 'testing' part and 'for the tree' pretty superfluos.
32
33 > > no, it just makes you think if you should really use a piece of software
34 > > whose makers will insult and ridicule you.
35 >
36 > If anyone likes to "insult and ridicule" Paludis users, it's not the
37 > Paludis developers.
38
39 no, they like to insult everybody no matter what they use - right?

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Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage... David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.10 in portage... "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>