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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ?
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 09:35:29
Message-Id: 200801131129.48408.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Daniel Robbins' come back ? by James
1 On Sunday 13 January 2008, James wrote:
2 > I read one poster that blasted Ciaran McCreesh....
3 > Also recently, I read a thread where he created an alternative
4 > to portage, and that many respected techies on this list actually
5 > use his replacement for portage. The poster that blasted Ciaran,
6 > misses a simple point. (Machiavellian aside). You have break some
7 > eggs to create an omlette.
8 >
9 > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli
10
11 That poster was me. Ciaran McCreesh is involved with the development of
12 Paludis, and it IS superior to portage in many respects. One of it's
13 strengths is that he didn't consider himself bound by portage's
14 constraints.
15
16 I didn't miss the eggs and omelettes point and I don't appreciate the
17 Machiavelli reference. Ciaran is probably very convinced of his
18 rightness and reading his postings you might think he's making a lot of
19 sense. but read deeper and analyse the *results* of his postings,
20 especially on places like -dev. In three years I've come across lots of
21 threads he participates in, and I have yet to see a single one where he
22 correctly stated at the end that someone else was right and he was
23 wrong.
24
25 Just because he writes good C++ code doesn't make him a good visionary
26 for Gentoo, in much the same way that just because Bill Gates and
27 friends built the most financially successful OS ever makes their
28 business model right.
29
30 Other than that I find your post to be lucid, well thought out and
31 obviously written by someone with some (many?) miles under his feet.
32 Others reading this thread would do well to read it in it's entirety
33 and have a good long quiet think about it. I'll quote the last
34 paragraph here for reference as it sums things up nicely (for me at
35 least):
36
37 > Gentoo needs leadership that is accountable to the user community
38 > but also bound to a set of bylaws that we agree with. Keeping the
39 > distro free is paramount, but, creating avenues for financial success
40 > for products and services centric to gentoo is a necessary
41 > requisite too, IMHO.
42
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