From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A1B513832E for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2016 14:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 699F621C060; Sun, 7 Aug 2016 14:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-f46.google.com (mail-wm0-f46.google.com [74.125.82.46]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61F57E0B75 for ; Sun, 7 Aug 2016 14:06:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wm0-f46.google.com with SMTP id q128so82874041wma.1 for ; Sun, 07 Aug 2016 07:06:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+okfni8pWaE4v7aTN4KWhseS9GpLZbvPOnBOLePb1S0=; b=h6ih20LCyAzl5+KVeCuPl7zDt5SHsKQJGkg1FnbT2O8U41RgsCZA1MokLNHZgUSc2s Fm6DL8h4+OZrWmalswSkfJgduQre36QVXgrk3182pzF0wL6kWh2kjYqO2vQcm//SJeu4 Iv/B1PqcohwJaTJ2ooAN/O2VBzgjXyd79FrtGmV5CwgUmqYwvvO77fjyDaHDSzxQYMk8 5WmFUKg1p3xsz049YhOBybtrRyM3DtkBPt4CojkVOJrTuu+dKQZaiepbq86Pi/hhN+Jr +6QuHVXj2FIvwJfY11M8sghcrjzRHNotvVUGi5N4be+NiUvYTrafRxliuwtyzVDBfcZX MRig== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=+okfni8pWaE4v7aTN4KWhseS9GpLZbvPOnBOLePb1S0=; b=Ec5OE8i1G7BTGf4f83U1YiQd6eyxgVYSFaafZK0BBsqRfT+YN+WV/mx3fOCI+ml7/l q2fy0MjovLGgo1ihHfOkqd19g1bDfBvpzidnL16si1/YjmFHC1E/eapDjMEcvEm6zYX3 FPZU1ZHpVGbxQ0168c5Vz7kn+g8Cvv4Zt37cB5CD2PZYvdBhD13Zuc46xRsTOGHLDKzQ krFAOKBSSKmFDhYXuISK6+5dA/ChLOGZTPvgKwS+oZzuyUODxNypkRMERG9kt98YDtCd c9YkQ13F8IRdsOt42+fUOk9NkfcIOPkW5tOBUmwFhKIhhPIaMW6zxgeapZP8jwokvyMJ 2TFg== X-Gm-Message-State: AEkoouvvWYbKYuwb04uFKK15T5MsmNmDjTIAGvbaHFr4HbWk8IjrFuh3KqetwydnAMMjfw== X-Received: by 10.28.152.5 with SMTP id a5mr11963739wme.76.1470578805741; Sun, 07 Aug 2016 07:06:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] ([196.212.62.210]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id b203sm18668380wmh.20.2016.08.07.07.06.43 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 07 Aug 2016 07:06:44 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Packages up for grabs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20160806211255.GI12988@foo.stuge.se> <49994385-FEB7-4951-B324-ED1BC66899D4@gentoo.org> <20160807073824.GA1030@daphne> <20160808013213.15ca7982@katipo2.lan> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 16:06:04 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 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 In-Reply-To: <20160808013213.15ca7982@katipo2.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0d4ebff3-8af4-42fa-9a68-cfda7f1381c7 X-Archives-Hash: 57e0cf895b1985c024e0a15edec1d28b On 07/08/2016 15:32, Kent Fredric wrote: >> Let them use java* codes, as that is what all the universities are >> > teaching and promoting. I agree >> > with gentoo proper on severely restricting java*, on gentoo-proper, >> > but that sort of thing is killing gentoo and just appears to the open >> > world as a filter mechanism to keep out and go elsewhere, snoot. >> > There are just too many exciting and useful codes out there running >> > java. > "All" ? Some. And the dominance and focus on Java is itself telling of > the quality and type of the education provider. > > Some education providers may not touch Java at all, and focus > predominantly on C. > > You can't satisfy everyone out of the box. > I have no idea where James gets his information from, but I suspect it's a niche market where uni students do "clustering" - whatever that is. The interesting apps out there are mostly running python, go and (sometimes) lua. And that's what I observe in my day job - business/mobile ISP. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com