On Nov 7, 2007 9:43 PM, Ryan Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2007 8:00 PM, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2007 2:27 AM, DaNiMoTh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I hope this never happen; I love arch as is. > > > A stable / conservative branch will only steal time of devs. > > > It's better use 100% of our forces to improve core, extra and > > > community and packages contained in these. > > > > > > Oh, all things IMHO :) > > > > This is the only sense spoken in the rest of this thread. The rest is > > whining "I think this should be done and everyone else should do it > > for me" > > > > If you don't like the way things are done, do it differently yourself. > > I think the other issue that has been brought up is that Arch is a > tool (IMO a very good one) among many; I don't understand the push for > monoculture in Linux distros, or in software in general. I think > Gentoo (I'm a happy ex-gentooer myself) has a lot going for it, but > it's not quite the tool I'm looking for, nor is *Ubuntu or BSD. Arch > the way it is right now is the perfect tool for me. If my needs > change, Debian, Slack or SuSE might be the tool I need. > > If stable and conservative is your primary goal, you might want a > different tool. It doesn't make you a bad person, or arch a bad > distro. If I need to pull a nail, I shouldn't complain because my > screw driver doesn't have a nail-pulling attachment; I should go get a > claw hammer. I'm very wary of multipurpose things; a good tool isn't > made better by making it do more things, or using it for things it > wasn't meant to do. > > I hope I'm not coming off as confrontational, I just get frustrated by > the "one distro to rule them all" search.
I actually really like your phrasing here - the "push for a monoculture" line got me 8) And I agree, you're just more elegant with the phrasing that I, heh. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
