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On Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:30:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > not "has to be easy", but definitely, with such purpose. |
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> > Do you disagree? Perhaps you reckon that the whole purpose of |
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> > computing is to make life harder? :) |
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> You know, this general topic rears it's head about every six months. The |
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> answer never changes: |
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> Gentoo is what it is, it works a certain way for a reason. Maybe you |
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> like it, maybe you don't. Either way that is not going to change anytime |
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> soon. What you could do is pitch in and do all the same heavy lifting |
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> that our long-term devs have done, and be the change you want to see in |
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> the world. |
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> That might involve dealing with the protestations of the existing devs |
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> though and they will likely quote the "Gentoo is what it is" line. |
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On the other hand, if you file bug report with a patch to the ebuild |
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that checks the running kernel version and outputs an elog message of |
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"you might want to try the in-kernel drivers". They may simply say "thank |
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you". |
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This is not a unique situation, there are other out of tree drivers that |
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give such a message, and plenty more that don't. All it needs is for |
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someone to take the time to fix it - rather than demanding that someone |
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else fixes it for them. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. |
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Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? |
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A: Top-posting. |
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Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? |
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