From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from triceratops.com (adsl-63-193-147-122.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.193.147.122]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 838C2ABD52 for ; Fri, 19 Apr 2002 20:30:08 -0500 (CDT) Received: (qmail 7817 invoked by uid 500); 20 Apr 2002 00:30:34 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 17:30:34 -0700 From: John White To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] making %95 of users happy Message-ID: <20020419173034.B4635@triceratops.com> References: <20020419175758.32718.qmail@web13306.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20020419175758.32718.qmail@web13306.mail.yahoo.com>; from gaarde@yahoo.com on Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:57:58AM -0700 Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 0dd39790-8e53-4931-9d05-7096d27208ce X-Archives-Hash: 494d935a3d250bc3aad7107de434e68f On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:57:58AM -0700, Gaarde wrote: > > DISCLAIMER: I'm intentionally being rude... it helps convey my message. Ah, how kind. > Being so young, the documentation, the sence of community, the code (albeit > in this case a 1.0 is quite nice. Kudos guys!), everything about the Gentoo > product is NOT AS MATURE AS MORE WIDELY DISTRIBUTED DISTRIBUTIONS! What does > 7.2 mean to you? Or 8.1? What does 1.1 mean to you? Well, with people being intentionally rude, it seems like a nicely developed and mature sense of community... > I guess some people just jumped head first into Gentoo without knowing what > they were getting into. (The middle of a development cycle... that just > never ends.) Well, some people wait for a non < 1.0 release. I know I did. > Now, Consider the previous statement a direct *POKE* at the people I refer to > as lusers. Did they read the documentation? What?!?!?! You just stated that the documentation isn't comparably mature. Actually, you stated that it wasn't comparably mature, and that it's quite nice. Or maybe it's just the code that's quite nice. Perhaps you could clarify. Or, being intentionally rude, perhaps you won't. > Did the read the part about profiles? In the comparably less mature documentation? Are you talking about the Portage Manual section 1, under Defaults, which talks about profiles only in the context of default and auto USE variables (and not to change make.defaults under make.profile/)? Perhaps there's another profile documentation section which describes how profiles should be used by the user to submit bug reports for the current profile? Not the Portage User Guid. The word profile doesn't exist there. I think these kind of rants would be more effective with pointers to the exact sections of documentation being referenced. Because as I enter my 7th day of reading gentoo docs, I'm not seeing them. -- John White