Re: [gentoo-dev] Reverse use of Python/Ruby versions

["Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov" <gentoo@mva.name>]

> painless option for users.

Well... If a bit of mind work is pain... So, then I'd say that Gentoo is not 
about avoiding such pain.

Did you hear about Gentoo Philosophy?

It says that point of Gentoo to appear was to give users possibility to make 
exact "tool" they wants to use, but not decide anything for them.

So, if a person wants to avoid thinking about some aspect of the system 
maintenance, then Gentoo is not recommended for this person and the person 
should consider to use some distro made by "Big Fat Corporations" (like 
Ubuntu, Fedora/RHEL, SuSE and whatever). They're very like to dictate what and 
how should user do, and what should not. And there is all that things already 
decided by BigBro's and users should not take care of any of that.


I can't understand people who refuse to get as complete knowledge as possible 
about tools/instruments they using (including OS).

Would you learn how does a hammer work before applying it to the nails? Or do 
you say "The only painless option for users is to make it spheric" instead?

And same for Gentoo: if you want to use something — please, consider to get a 
bit knowledge about how do it working. And it will be huge karma bonus for 
you, if you'll research the reasons why did it done in that way, and not 
another before complaining (why did wheels invented to be round, but not 
square? Square wheels are more stable on a flat surface, while round ones 
makes wagon to constantly move, while I loading my baggage on it).

I mean: most of the time, if you having trouble with something, it is most 
likely *you* (not you personally, but some abastract Freud-ish "you") doing 
something wrong, then the tool you're using is badly designed. And if you 
dislike the tool's design, you're free to take analogous tool from the rivals 
(and take that one you'd like).


Thanks for attention,
wbr, mva