On Friday June 16 2006 18:05, Ohad Lutzky wrote: > Umm... What's wrong with Gentoo's Hebrew support? I mean, yeah, okay, > Ubuntu's is better, but Gentoo's isn't BAD. Well, I never said it is BAD (tm). I like Gentoo. I run Gentoo everywhere I can. I just can hardly imagine myself bootstrapping Gentoo on 20 different machines simultaneously in the Linux day environment, even from stage3. It is, after all, a Linux _Day_. As for the hebrew support, I give you this as an example:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77751 Note the submission date... Speaking for myself only, there are at least twenty l10n/i18n bugs I am personally interested in, that are in solved state, but not inserted to portage. In my opinion, the sad situation when I have to sync on a dozen undead portage overlay servers to get what I want looks too much like what's going on with binary distros. Then I have my own local overlay which I have to update constantly. And don't get me wrong, I love code diving and rolling patches. I just don't like to do it when i know perfectly well that it's a waste of both my time and the time of hundreds, if not thousands of users that are doing the same. It was supposed to be a system of joined efforts, not the "every one for itself" jungle. Of course one can always waste another half an hour and find a solution on Gentoo bugzilla/forums, but let's not forget that the choice of that distribution was because of it's powerful package system, the almighty portage tree. -- Sincerely Yours, Michael Vasiliev "Program testing can be a very effective way to show the presence of bugs, but is hopelessly inadequate for showing their absence." -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
