From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ixc9k-0008Kz-IR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:41:49 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lAT5ewCC009758; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:40:58 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAT5cwu1007175 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:38:58 GMT Received: from gentoo.org (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD9164F29 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:38:57 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:38:54 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Features and documentation Message-ID: <20071129053854.GD11249@supernova> References: <20071127192144.GP4368@supernova> <474D53CA.7060101@gentoo.org> <20071128211405.GA11126@supernova> <20071128213319.09f73e89@blueyonder.co.uk> 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-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: dcd91568-af08-4802-8a80-1bf6e340d85e X-Archives-Hash: b4954b1879acf080e2f971e2344789aa On 05:04 Thu 29 Nov , Duncan wrote: > Leave it to ciarnm to be so direct, amusing tho it is, but that pretty > much nails it. I've seen it said by some that Gentoo's no longer "fun". > I disagree but honestly, ask yourself if there's a better way to ruin the > fun remaining than by instituting policies so nebulous they simply /beg/ > for argument over their application. The idea sounds so nice, something > everybody should be able to agree to in principle, but that's precisely > the problem, there's no specifics, so no practical way to tell where or > how it applies, or what changes (if any) it would bring. Pardon my > saying so but at least in the US, it's the season of politics, and we're > seeing a lot of this vague "big stroke" pie in the sky painting right > now. Unlike most of those, there's a chance with this one to get it > nailed down to the point it's actually practical. In fact, I believe exactly the opposite. What we want to create are basic philosophies to guide us. Nailing down a million tiny details is what makes things not fun, and what makes them impossible to learn. We're not trying to write a specification here, we're trying to come up with a set of guidelines that people could actually learn and remember. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list