From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M545V-0004KW-EO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 May 2009 20:33:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E731DE0595; Fri, 15 May 2009 20:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.149]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4F83E0595 for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 20:32:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 26so561142eyw.10 for ; Fri, 15 May 2009 13:32:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=iT0UNpSlHAVbWXwBELlp6iYmdPv0CG9p6Jnj9R5/HNs=; b=KPnml4dOV9JcETwfG2W1MjD/vRMlLIV+IRxqYqxoFq+lnFMOh/hO/ekMoSx1aLZooX DRiV/Wk4wR+R2tm6UlnBh/vU+Rrr9dKDpfQcbPT6sry0caeMr5GM1+6/NcZmLHFE/K8P OKv3udPrUnz1zGujFwpyvoW6J5hIO+OrwbTEA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=YgAtU00/1lrkRcEWEZCOhVbU8MDpFALMKQbJjVV12JA/SIkj3Cl5Sugxzl5MwRs18v OSEZsQN5nc2AtQ4Q7a7B9LqNPTdLJyDovHRSLKOYSobCAvSt0SMIXePHOV/rxaVEsipa 8dGCCWE0gjvr5YdGn5oc/4Wd8IwSs4BwIO0rI= Received: by 10.210.43.10 with SMTP id q10mr1061530ebq.24.1242419579111; Fri, 15 May 2009 13:32:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.0.2? (5acc3399.bb.sky.com [90.204.51.153]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 5sm300583eyh.20.2009.05.15.13.32.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 15 May 2009 13:32:58 -0700 (PDT) From: David Leverton To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: The fallacies of GLEP55 Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 21:32:52 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <200905142006.51998.patrick@gentoo.org> <20090515201757.4dd324dd@snowmobile> <1876706.o0cNKnX3bN@news.friendly-coders.info> In-Reply-To: <1876706.o0cNKnX3bN@news.friendly-coders.info> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200905152132.52553.levertond@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d7dd4656-fcf5-47ac-8179-22f12bcfe8ab X-Archives-Hash: 27f1f26a061c90ae5fc2f63068b83bb5 On Friday 15 May 2009 21:06:13 Steven J Long wrote: > In practical terms, this is a useless proposal. It rightly got trashed > last year. No, it did not get "trashed", despite some people's attempts to make their side sound more popular than it really is. Some people like the idea, some don't, and people have put forward various arguments in both directions. If it were really as widely hated as you claim (presumably with the implication that the people who still support it are horrible and evil for even thinking about it) then it wouldn't still be under discussion.