On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:42:51 +0100 Mike Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And yet still you keep fighting? Why?
Because unlike pretty much everyone else around here, I haven't given up on Gentoo. I still think it can have a future. > What do you *need* from Gentoo that you can't get for yourself? I don't need Gentoo. I do, however, think it would be a shame for all the work I've put into it over the years to go to waste. > There's a neat little project called Exherbo you might have heard of. > It's trying to build up most of those things, and they don't put up > with incompetent, unknowledgeable people, so I'm sure they'll let you > in, and I'm sure you'll be happy there. *yawn* http://ciaranm.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/paludis-gentoo-and-exherbo/ > I'm quite happy to continue working in a friendly helpful environment, > where simple questions are most often met with patient answers and > people are given the chance to learn, improve and help out where they > can. I'm happy to keep quietly maintaining my ebuilds and let the > people whose packages I package come up with the new stuff. You don't > seem to be, so perhaps this isn't the right place for you to > contribute? ~ If you do want to contribute, perhaps you could > consider the environment you're working in, and be more accommodating > to it rather than fighting against it? The environment is a large part of Gentoo's problem. The focus needs to be taken away from the 'community' (where community means a bunch of Ubuntu users who make lots of noise on the forums) and put back into delivering a decent distribution. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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