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 1GXIUO-0003zR-1k for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:21:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9AEKPaC001997; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:20:25 GMT Received: from filer2.rit.edu (filer2.isc.rit.edu [129.21.2.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9AEHPQP028667 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:17:25 GMT Received: from karimarie.rh.rit.edu (karimarie.rh.rit.edu [129.21.134.10]) by osfmail.rit.edu (PMDF V6.2-X17 #30844) with ESMTPA id <0J6W0024LHSCXJ@osfmail.rit.edu> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:31:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:30:40 -0400 From: Kari Hazzard Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users In-reply-to: <452AC309.70701@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200610092330.40400.karimarie@mail.rit.edu> 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 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 X-RIT-Received-From: 129.21.134.10 djh0579@osfmail.rit.edu References: <1160056361.6289.17.camel@party.homenetwork> <200610090740.54261.karimarie@mail.rit.edu> <452AC309.70701@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: c302ae5c-6b56-4d4f-a8bd-85877925132d X-Archives-Hash: 10731ffc8e9058666d3fbbf798ab4548 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. Kari Hazzard On Monday 09 October 2006 5:45 pm, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > That's only true if you assume Gentoo developers are in this for the > users and not for themselves and their own personal satisfaction. > > Thanks, > Donnie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list