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On Sunday 13 January 2008, James wrote: |
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> I read one poster that blasted Ciaran McCreesh.... |
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> Also recently, I read a thread where he created an alternative |
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> to portage, and that many respected techies on this list actually |
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> use his replacement for portage. The poster that blasted Ciaran, |
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> misses a simple point. (Machiavellian aside). You have break some |
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> eggs to create an omlette. |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli |
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That poster was me. Ciaran McCreesh is involved with the development of |
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Paludis, and it IS superior to portage in many respects. One of it's |
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strengths is that he didn't consider himself bound by portage's |
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constraints. |
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I didn't miss the eggs and omelettes point and I don't appreciate the |
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Machiavelli reference. Ciaran is probably very convinced of his |
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rightness and reading his postings you might think he's making a lot of |
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sense. but read deeper and analyse the *results* of his postings, |
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especially on places like -dev. In three years I've come across lots of |
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threads he participates in, and I have yet to see a single one where he |
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correctly stated at the end that someone else was right and he was |
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wrong. |
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Just because he writes good C++ code doesn't make him a good visionary |
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for Gentoo, in much the same way that just because Bill Gates and |
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friends built the most financially successful OS ever makes their |
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business model right. |
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Other than that I find your post to be lucid, well thought out and |
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obviously written by someone with some (many?) miles under his feet. |
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Others reading this thread would do well to read it in it's entirety |
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and have a good long quiet think about it. I'll quote the last |
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paragraph here for reference as it sums things up nicely (for me at |
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least): |
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> Gentoo needs leadership that is accountable to the user community |
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> but also bound to a set of bylaws that we agree with. Keeping the |
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> distro free is paramount, but, creating avenues for financial success |
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> for products and services centric to gentoo is a necessary |
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> requisite too, IMHO. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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