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 4.54) id 1FNH8i-00037T-Jh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:21:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2PMKolV028298; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:20:50 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2PMHQu3032726 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 22:17:26 GMT Received: from zidane.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-zidane.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.13]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k2PMHNRa021425 for ; Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:17:23 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (blacksburg-bsr1-69-170-32-128.chvlva.adelphia.net [69.170.32.128]) by zidane.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id FGJ33683 (AUTH spbecker); Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:17:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4425C171.2010307@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 17:17:21 -0500 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mail/News 1.5 (X11/20060324) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal? References: <20060324193534.GA24818@dst.grantgoodyear.org> <200603251608.50327.carlo@gentoo.org> <200603251950.21397@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <200603252136.37073.carlo@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200603252136.37073.carlo@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k2PMKonB028298 X-Archives-Salt: c7cb8ab9-e590-4917-8720-ddc6cffa4290 X-Archives-Hash: e59d104ef2407d58c438bcf0cc95f2ff Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Saturday 25 March 2006 19:50, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten=C3=B2 wrote: >> This is the same line of thinking that makes people use flash or wmv >> "because it's the silly Linux users that has to adapt, Windows works f= ine" >> and similar. >=20 > It's not. Darcs is not proprietary, so you can make it work if you want= /need=20 > it. And it's up to those who use a specific platform to make it flouris= h, but=20 > holding us back to use something because of some specific platform havi= ng not=20 > enough developers/users/steam to follow would be entirely stupid. Actually, you are incorrent, and apparently haven't listened to at least a couple of emails from dcoutts. At this time, ghc is totally unfeasable on mips, and therefore so is Darcs. There is no reason to screw over one arch when there are other VCS implementations which will work. -Steve --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list