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 1SidoN-0004uC-UU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:48:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A736E0B62; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-f181.google.com (mail-vc0-f181.google.com [209.85.220.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05D6E0B2A for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:47:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vcbf1 with SMTP id f1so1656832vcb.40 for ; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:47:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=xsejFcjlu1k8gib9m/LyojjjIbc/zuUA7BiVsjT2Hrs=; b=EXEhAPlq7IsvGi2N1RDnB8yuUPeNPZTIPriO+2MSD0qv2rA6rvBCHGUyNxsmdDCPi+ Xej/6N7jT57kwVYTG3ft4ziXgVCfbzmlgtBlr6zWh7cVEB5ARarqXG4LFoVG4tFi3A90 bxN1rkk7pickJawxB8cVSPTlwN6N9qZlKuTAsUE1tV93xilXdmrNeXkP8Di4/qfo1Pzq vrTkcEU+rv9n/3l6oO0KpNb7QcssuTgeA6p7NKKf5uYh2ONCye75LKwvCcfsubDEvmyA H/6ovzg3CXxTFADgEzRSvH4jRWh7OaqBd12J3TfFpHzV/6UYxW7s/eNm4djXHb8dmZbX 0OeA== 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 Received: by 10.221.1.5 with SMTP id no5mr4499745vcb.67.1340509642056; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:47:22 -0700 (PDT) Sender: cardoe@cardoe.com Received: by 10.220.105.146 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Jun 2012 20:47:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FE60B82.7000509@gentoo.org> References: <4FD408BF.4040303@gentoo.org> <1339300461.8754.19.camel@rook> <20120610211919.652fcf0c@googlemail.com> <20120610214920.11fc9181@googlemail.com> <20120611180828.51dbddcd@googlemail.com> <4FE60B82.7000509@gentoo.org> Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 22:47:22 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: TTWiSxc0F2-HGBqoet_M2cNMWa4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] gtk3 useflag and support of older toolkits From: Doug Goldstein To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlfHbXjU8NjNCFy6goMZ0n9+GAo76uGuGmVW7ueg9sREdcnikzfjnoeQ0yIArGjrfoiBYqy X-Archives-Salt: cc7f36c6-f862-4e23-b40a-c6f15af5c478 X-Archives-Hash: 3b9b73f144f071bf1da543fb92920e8d On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:31 PM, hasufell wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/11/2012 07:08 PM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> No, your goal is to provide a distribution. Gentoo has repeatedly >> shot itself in the foot, leg, groin etc by favouring short-term >> hacks over a well thought out, validated, self-enforcing design. >> Right now nearly all of the package manager work is on paying off >> previously incurred technical debt, and in the mean time you're >> busy adding to it. >> > > Please take your exherbo trolling somewhere else. > > Our goal is not to provide a distribution, because gentoo sees itself > as a metadistribution. > > Please familiarize yourself with: > http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml Let's keep the discussions on this mailing list technical and not personal. Thanks. -- Doug Goldstein