[gentoo-dev] Posting to gentoo-dev

[gentoo-dev] Posting to gentoo-dev

[Jason Stubbs]

Greetings all,

Just a quick question. As a lowly user, I'm just wondering whether I'm allowed 
to post to -dev. Not "how do I?" questions, of course; I mean (hopefully) 
useful contributions to general discussion items. I've posted twice now and 
both times the thread seems to have died - unresolved. I've only been 
subscribed for about a week and it seems that much is left unresolved though, 
so I don't take offence. Just wondering if I should "mind my own business"...

Humbly yours, ;-)
Jason

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Posting to gentoo-dev

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Wednesday 27 August 2003 15:21, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> Just a quick question. As a lowly user, I'm just wondering whether I'm
> allowed to post to -dev. Not "how do I?" questions, of course; I mean
> (hopefully) useful contributions to general discussion items. I've posted
> twice now and both times the thread seems to have died - unresolved. I've
> only been subscribed for about a week and it seems that much is left
> unresolved though, so I don't take offence. Just wondering if I should
> "mind my own business"...
>

You are certainly allowed, and welcome, to post to -dev. Sometimes it is a bit 
hard to be noticed through the noice, but feel welcome to try again. Also if 
you have questions that deviate from the subject of the current thread it 
might be better to start a new one instead of replying to said thread.

Paul

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Posting to gentoo-dev

[Seemant Kulleen]

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Hi Jason,

Please please do continue posting to the list.  That's what it's for :)
As for the unresolved issues -- the glibc/gcc one you should probably
open a bug about it at bugs.gentoo.org

The metadata one is best answered by carpaski who is currently (as of
last night) 400 emails behind on this list, due to mail server issues
that he's had.  As for the uninstalling one -- that's also a portage
issue.  I might suggest coming to irc.freenode.net into the
#gentoo-portage irc channel to discuss that kinda thing.  The clobbering
issue is something that needs to be addressed, and will be in a future
iteration of portage, to be sure.

Essentially, I think the idea is to *before* merging into the live
filesystem, check that a file is not duplicate; if it is, back it up
into a tarball and store that.  That way when the new package is
unmerged, leaving the old package only, then the previously stored stuff
can be restored.  Dunno if that makes sense or no.  In many cases like
su, and ping and stuff like that, a decision is usually made after some
developer discussion to just axe it out from one of the packages,
because the other one has a superior implementation.

Hope that helps, and sorry if you felt lost in the flotsam and jetsam of
the list.  It's honestly nothing personal, it's just the high traffic
that -dev generates these days.  And of course, you're always welcome to
chat with developers and users in a more real time sense on the irc
network.

Good luck,

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Posting to gentoo-dev

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:21, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> Just a quick question. As a lowly user, I'm just wondering whether I'm allowed 
> to post to -dev. Not "how do I?" questions, of course; I mean (hopefully) 
> useful contributions to general discussion items. I've posted twice now and 
> both times the thread seems to have died - unresolved. I've only been 
> subscribed for about a week and it seems that much is left unresolved though, 
> so I don't take offence. Just wondering if I should "mind my own business"...

Honestly, post often.  We love hearing from users.  In fact, this list
is essentially "about development" rather than being "for developers". 
We definitely welcome all Gentoo users to post to any thread on this
list.  After all, Gentoo is about the community, so we want to hear from
you as much as we can stand ( ;p) to make Gentoo better for us all. 
Sometimes a thread simply dies, especially when another is going on
which gets people riled up and posting.  Have some patience and just let
it slide.  If nobody touches on the issue, wait a bit until traffic dies
down on any "heated" threads and post again.

Once again, thanks for the posting!

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Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Games Team

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