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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXKcl-0004b2-37 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:38:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9AGarHk007398; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:36:53 GMT Received: from njcwmailp1.vzwnet.com (njcwmailp1.vzwnet.com [66.174.77.82]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9AGYgcm013686 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:34:43 GMT Received: from txsldns1.nss.txsl.vzwnet.com (txsldns1.nss.txsl.vzwnet.com [10.215.210.71]) by njcwmailp1.vzwnet.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/1.0.1) with ESMTP id k9AGNFl2018862 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:23:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from txslpc1d36.wkst.vzwnet.com (txslpc1d36.wkst.vzwnet.com [10.215.206.62]) by txsldns1.nss.txsl.vzwnet.com (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10/1.0.1) with ESMTP id k9AGYff7010222 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:34:41 -0500 (CDT) Received: by txslpc1d36.wkst.vzwnet.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CE8D823F81; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:34:40 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users From: Paul Varner To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200610092330.40400.karimarie@mail.rit.edu> References: <1160056361.6289.17.camel@party.homenetwork> <200610090740.54261.karimarie@mail.rit.edu> <452AC309.70701@gentoo.org> <200610092330.40400.karimarie@mail.rit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:34:38 -0500 Message-Id: <1160498079.5101.2.camel@txslpc1d36.wkst.vzwnet.com> 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 2.6.2 X-Archives-Salt: 2df1433c-053e-45d2-a69c-7127ca7ead59 X-Archives-Hash: 41bd5025ab7fda56606485d00b877677 On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 23:30 -0400, Kari Hazzard wrote: > The point is that if you build Gentoo to be developer-friendly rather than > user-friendly, Gentoo will be replaced by something else. > > User-centric design is why Gentoo is/was different from everything else. Take > away choices that people want and you take the Gentoo philosophy out of > Gentoo itself. However, all developers are users first. If you have an itch to scratch that the current development team isn't meeting, then get involved. There are lots of ways to do that. Regards, Paul -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list