From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F20Rc-00036M-Ff for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:17:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k0Q6GXqb022249; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:16:33 GMT Received: from linux.homershut.net (linux.homershut.net [64.216.105.3]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0Q6EetN009180 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:14:40 GMT Received: from laptop (laptop.homershut.net [192.168.1.5] (may be forged)) by linux.homershut.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k0Q6END06572 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:14:23 -0600 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable From: Homer Parker To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200601252106.10400.mikey@badpenguins.com> References: <200601252251.k0PMpKZZ004307@gw.open-hosting.net> <200601252106.10400.mikey@badpenguins.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:14:30 -0600 Message-Id: <1138256070.8225.12.camel@laptop> 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 2.4.2.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Homershut-MailScanner-Information: Virus and spam filtering courtesy of Homer's Hut X-Homershut-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Homershut-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-6, required 5, USER_IN_WHITELIST_TO -6.00) X-MailScanner-From: hparker@gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: e64f5fbb-d68a-4e9a-8280-23758b5a62e9 X-Archives-Hash: 01a4cb9f1974979190e02fd7b9d844a5 On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:06 -0600, Mikey wrote: > Solutions? And how many have you tested and submitted patches for? Instead of just complaining, be proactive and help with the problem you perceive is there. If it's a viable solution, it'll probably be at least discussed. Then there's a matter of the manpower to maintain said solution. One of the reasons of going to stage3 as the only supported method is the ingenious ways users break their systems from stage1, and the overhead of dealing with bogus bugs. -- Homer Parker Gentoo/AMD64 Team Gentoo/AMD64 Arch Tester Strategic Lead Gentoo Linux Developer Relations hparker@gentoo.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list