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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXItE-0008R5-7n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:47:28 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9AEjjC3024288; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:45:45 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9AEgCGa007208 for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:42:13 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id p27so728139ugc for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:42:12 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=uLei688pBLUlyfJ6fZ9v2BFaR7sWCFXaZDGTxvItK3ZLrBUFFCVr4u0K0qP9/1mlspD9CxI4iiBA0f0R7QzRxnCyLRA3/U6zG+01DffemXAKaHwhlJZL9NNlDB7Er2o+HMbOt76horEv288bgrZD5SsiFRaFxtK2fPzzQ71QO/U= Received: by 10.78.185.7 with SMTP id i7mr6037515huf; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:42:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.161.8 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:42:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:42:12 +0100 From: "Stuart Herbert" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Missing: Universal-CD - Gentoo discriminates shell and networkless users In-Reply-To: <1160490538.10037.8.camel@localhost> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1160056361.6289.17.camel@party.homenetwork> <200610090740.54261.karimarie@mail.rit.edu> <452AC309.70701@gentoo.org> <200610092330.40400.karimarie@mail.rit.edu> <1160490538.10037.8.camel@localhost> X-Archives-Salt: 794353af-2305-4485-8be6-eb482271f034 X-Archives-Hash: 062808fc16e71744204af23ddca408b3 On 10/10/06, Seemant Kulleen wrote: > If the design was in any way user-centric, then that was a side-effect > of the design being developer-centric. The choices are all about > enabling development and developers. The Gentoo philosophy is about > empowerment -- we provide a platform for you to do what you want with > it. That's our only promise, all the rest is just gravy. Rel. Eng. and > others do what they do because, at its root, that's what they *want* to > do -- that's how they exercise their own empowerment. Feel free to join > in the fray and exercise your own :) Or, to put it another way ... ... One aspect of the Gentoo Way(tm) is this: if you don't like how part of Gentoo works, the thing to do is to volunteer to become a developer, and work from the inside to change it. Best regards, Stu -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list