From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ppsw-1.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw-1.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.131]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4AHcHtF017336 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 17:38:17 GMT X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Received: from spb42.christs.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.233.172]:10901) by ppsw-1.csi.cam.ac.uk (smtp.hermes.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.151]:465) with esmtpsa (PLAIN:spb42) (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) id 1DVYgY-000793-4b (Exim 4.51) for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org (return-path ); Tue, 10 May 2005 18:38:22 +0100 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: New category proposal From: Stephen Bennett To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: References: <427E116E.9080105@gentoo.org> <1115591359.19595.124.camel@bunyip> <20050508235004.GL6541@celeborn.wh-og.hs-niederrhein.de> <20050509001920.GC12085@ols-dell.gg3.net> <20050509170725.GC21777@kaf.zko.hp.com> <1115715727.25756.8.camel@nosferatu.lan> <4280CDBC.5020002@egr.msu.edu> <1115739418.24940.5.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:44:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1115747094.24940.11.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: spb42@hermes.cam.ac.uk X-Archives-Salt: 50b21e63-ee5f-4282-8ab5-7a2870f2a11b X-Archives-Hash: 2fc9d74257934acedf031cdf0c0fe75d On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 10:25 -0700, Duncan wrote: > Well, the latter anyway shouldn't be a big issue. That's what Gentoo > ships patched kernels for, right? ... And as for not stable on various > archs, that's what open source is for, right? What's what open source is for? Spending your time fixing other people's broken code so that it works on your arch, when there's a rock-solid alternative that already works better and has done for years? As for proper xattrs, it's another of those cases where it's not worth fixing reiser when ext3 (or xfs, of course) works perfectly well. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list