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 1Ggfxb-0007gt-I8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 11:14:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kA5BD5vK020498; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 11:13:05 GMT Received: from mail.genone.homeip.net (dslb-082-083-056-091.pools.arcor-ip.net [82.83.56.91]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kA5BAnkq016362 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 11:10:50 GMT Received: by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 460) id BA7FB28154; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 11:59:14 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3-gr0-genone_0.7 (2006-06-01) on lyta.genone.homeip.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=7.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3-gr0-genone_0.7 Received: from unknown (unknown [192.168.0.40]) by mail.genone.homeip.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C01A8280D6 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2006 11:59:12 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 11:59:53 +0100 From: Marius Mauch To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for November Message-Id: <20061105115953.dca72dc5.genone@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <454DBB86.9060001@gentoo.org> References: <20061101134037.6F126649AC@smtp.gentoo.org> <1162719343.14498.35.camel@tuxhugger> <20061105095949.221e85ba@snowdrop.home> <454DBB86.9060001@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i686-pc-mingw32) 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=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e9be606d-3920-491c-be69-d41bf7731702 X-Archives-Hash: 6f4ab40d8550c95fb1cb9b026bceffb8 On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:23:02 -0800 David Shakaryan wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Wow. That's about the pettiest and least relevant thing you could ask > > them to discuss. Why not ask for a vote on what colour the soft > > icecream machine should be whilst you're at it? > > Silly analogy. It isn't silly, the color of the icecream machine is a top priority for many people! Well, I guess you don't know how much lobby work went into this over the last years ;) > > Clearly this is one of those easy to understand issues where everyone > > has an opinion, and rather than fix their mail client or behaviour they > > try to have a huge debate about it... Don't you people have any bugs to > > fix? > > This is not a question of opinion; this is one of consistency. All of > the lists are currently doing it a certain way, whilst -core seems to be > behaving differently. This is bound to cause confusion. As you > mentioned, we should be dealing with more important things. Why not > settle this once and for all, so we constantly don't have to spend time > having this useless argument? Still doesn't make this material for the council, this is entirely infras domain so people who want to get this "fixed" in what way ever should talk to them. Or should I refer people to the council whenever they aren't happy with the output/option handling of emerge (to give you a more realistic analogy)? Marius -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list